Today, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis made a statement in which he called for the abandonment of all weapons of mass destruction.
"These events became a symbol of the infinite destructive power of man in an attempt to distortedly use the achievements of science and technology, and became an eternal warning to humanity to forever abandon war, all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction," he said during his Sunday sermon.
"The only way to win a war is not to start it," Interfax quotes him as saying.
He also called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945, "tragic events, which provoke horror and disgust." "This sad anniversary prompts us all to pray and above all to seek peace," the Pope concluded.
