In retrospect

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing on Nagasaki, at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Thursday. Ban is in Japan visiting Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where Ban attends the ceremony commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing on Friday. Ki-moon called for the abolishment of nuclear weapons during the visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in the closing days of World War II. AP/Shuji Kajiyama