Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Wednesday.

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,

Hiroshima marked 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, holding a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed.