Hiroshima mayor rips growing support for nuclear weapons as city marks 78th anniversary of bombing

[Kamaji]

Hiroshima mayor rips growing support for nuclear weapons as city marks 78th anniversary of bombing

By Associated Press
August 6, 2023

Hiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a deterrent resulting from uneasiness over Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting Sunday as the city remembered the atomic bombing of 78 years ago.

The observance came two months after Hiroshima hosted a summit of the Group of 7 major industrial nations, at which G7 leaders visited the city’s peace park and a museum dedicated to those who died in the word’s first atomic attack.

The leaders issued a joint statement calling for the continued non-use of nuclear weapons, but they also justified having such arms to “serve defensive purposes, deter aggression and prevent war and coercion.”

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui rejected that position in his peace address at the commemoration.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/hiroshima-marks-78th-anniversary-of-atomic-bombing/

[Kamaji]

Stuck in the past.

[corbe]

   Weren't they working on the bomb in the last days of WWII or was it just OSS/ONI propaganda?

[Fishrrman]

Eventually, the possession of nukes may be the only convincing deterrent the Japanese will have against the Chinese moving against their islands (after Taiwan submits to CCP rule, of course).