Vatican City, Aug 9, 2015 / 06:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said the “horrific” atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the icon of man’s destructive misuse of scientific progress, and called for an end to all nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction.

The “tremendous” atomic bombings of the two Japanese cities, which took place the 6 and 9 of August 1945, “still arouses horror and repulsion,” the Pope said in his Aug. 9 Sunday Angelus address.