The attacks remain the only time atomic bombs have been used in wartime. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima today with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the nuclear “Doomsday Clock” close to midnight.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades,