Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held in New York

A coalition of groups opposed to nuclear weapons marched in New York today, just before talks start at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Marching bands played, and demonstrators held placards and flags pushing for nuclear disarmament and rallying against war as they made their way toward Central Park.
The protest by United for Peace and Justice, an antiwar group, and Abolition Now, which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons, have said they expected up to 60,000 people to participate, including the mayors of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945 in the final days of World War II, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people.
Marching along with the mayors from the two Japanese cities were survivors of the bombings. The march started at midday and made its way up First Avenue in Manhattan before heading west.