Evoking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, UN Official Appeals for End to Use of Nuclear Weapons

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 May 2010 – Remembering the terrible toll of the nuclear attacks during World War II on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a senior United Nations official today appealed for an end to the use of the weapons, which remain an “apocalyptic” threat.

The two cities were destroyed in August 1945, and more than 200,000 people died of nuclear radiation, shock waves from the blasts and thermal radiation.

More than 400,000 more people have died…