Nagasaki marked the 80th anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombing on Saturday with the first joint peal in eight decades of the twin bells at the city’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral, also known as Urakami Cathedral. The restored small bell, financed with roughly $125,000 raised by US Catholic parishioners and installed in the cathedral’s northern tower, rang at 11:02 a.m.—the exact time the bomb detonated on 9 August 1945—followed by the original large bell in the southern tower. The project was championed by James Nolan Jr., a Williams College sociology professor whose grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project, and by local hibakusha descendant Kojiro Morinouchi. Their campaign drew donations from more than 600 American Catholics, symbolising reconciliation between former wartime adversaries. At the Peace Park ceremony, which attracted delegations from more than 100 countries including Russia for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Mayor Shiro Suzuki urged an end to armed conflicts and warned that the risk of nuclear war still threatens humanity. Doves were released and a minute’s silence observed in memory of the approximately 74,000 people killed in Nagasaki—part of the 214,000 total fatalities in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings that led to Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945.