The US and its allies pose the biggest danger to world peace

Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Japan on Thursday to cancel debts of developing countries, likening their suffering to the devastation of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On a visit to Hiroshima, Tutu said debt relief was a concrete way for Japan to demonstrate its oft-stated post-war commitment to peace.

As they lay dying amid the ruins of their city, the victims of the Hiroshima bomb craved one thing above all -- water. On Saturday morning cups of water were brought as symbolic offerings as, 60 years to the day after the city was vapourised, Hiroshima remembered its dead.

A day before the United States dropped the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Akie Yoshikawa remembered the sky was full of American B-29 bombers and they were flying like "swallows". But she was not particularly concerned.

Seven-year-old Masaaki Tanabe spent that hot and humid summer playing in the gardens of the industrial promotion hall, beneath the striking green dome which had become a local landmark. In those days Hiroshima, set against rolling mountain peaks and spread across a delta dotted by bridges, was known as the "city of water".