Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, right, hands over the name list of newly added people who died of the world's first atomic bombing over the past year during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 bombing that killed 140,000 people, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. "This hell is not a thing of the past," Matsui said in his peace declaration at Sunday's ceremony. "As long as nuclear weapons exist and policymakers threaten their use, their horror could leap into our present at any moment. You could find yourself suffering their cruelty." (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP)
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