Countries are being urged to commit to banning nuclear weapons on the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
The atomic bomb killed 80, people in Japan, with the death toll rising to 150-200 thousand within a year.
A new UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons has just been approved, after being proposed by Ireland and 5 other nations.
It will open for signatures in September and be ratified as soon as 50 countries sign it.
David Hutchinson Edgar from the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament says it’s vital that none of the estimated 17-thousand nuclear weapons in the world are ever detonated.
