The images are iconic... a mushroom cloud erupts over the city of Nagasaki in 1945, in the world's second wartime atomic bombing ever.<br/> <br />Some 150,000 people died in the attack and from the subsequent radiation sickness.<br/> <br />69 years later, Japan remembers the victims during a memorial service.<br/> <br />Visitors observed a moment of silence at 11:02 in the morning, the exact time the bomb was dropped.<br/> <br />After their surrender to Allied forces, Japan adopted a pacifist constitution.<br/> <br />Recently though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted the country's ban on aiding other countries under attack- the most significant change to country's security policies in decades.
