A memorial has been held in Dundee for those who died during the Hiroshima bombing.
The annual walk by the Tayside Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) took place on Friday to mark Hiroshima Memorial Day.
Dozens of people gathered at Dundee Law to mark the occasion.
Dundee vigil
They walked from the foot of the hill to the top as part of the 40th Dundee vigil for the horrors of the bombing.
The event in the City of Discovery is the oldest continuous Hiroshima Memorial Day commemoration in Scotland.
A second service taking place on August 9 will also commemorate Nagasaki Memorial Day, 76 years on from the nuclear attacks during World War Two. Those wishing to attend are instructed to be on the Law before 11am.
Tayside CND have advised all are welcome to attend the vigils which are being held on Dundee Law.
Prayers
Prayers were led by Workplace Chaplain Geoff Findlay while other speakers included
Willie Shields of Dundee Pensioners’ Forum and Mercedes Villalba MSP.
At least 129,000 people were killed in both bombings – ordered by then US president Harry S. Truman – while the radiation caused cancer and birth defects in thousands more.
The Hiroshima bomb was detonated above the city, killing almost 80,000 people immediately.
Thousands more were later killed from radiation poisoning. In total, 90% of the city’s population was destroyed.
The second bomb on Nagasaki killed an estimated 40,000 more people.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender on August 15, six days after the second bomb was dropped.