Vienna – The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called for ridding the world of nuclear weapons amid Russia’s threats to use them in its war against Ukraine, as the first meeting of parties to a U.N. treaty prohibiting the ultimate weapons of war started Tuesday in Vienna. The three-day meeting aims to build momentum toward
Vienna – A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Monday appealed for the understanding of the inhumanity of nuclear weapons at an international conference in Vienna, ahead of the first meeting under a U.N. treaty to ban such arms. “The atomic bomb is a weapon of inhumanity and of absolute evil, with
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has raised the specter of nuclear weapons being used by Russia in its intrusion of Ukraine, calling the possibility “increasingly genuine” throughout a visit to Hiroshima with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel.The remarks by Kishida highlighted growing concern in Tokyo that Russia might possibly use smaller, tactical nuclear weapons in
