November 2, 2013
Japan’s survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima raised their voices in protest against the nuclear tests being carried out by the United States.
The U.S. government recently announced that it conducted a new-type of nuclear testing at facilities in New Mexico between July and September in order to evaluate the performance of its nuclear weapons.
The Hiroshima Council against A and H Bombs (Hiroshima Gensuikyo) and the Hiroshima Federation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Hiroshima Hidankyo) staged a sit-in protest on November 1 in front of the cenotaph for A-bomb victims in Hiroshima City, with 55 atomic-bomb survivors and their supporters participating. The slogan on the demonstrators’ banner read, “Stop new nuclear weapons development! Start international negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)!”
The participants also adopted a resolution of protest. The resolution notes that a record high of 125 nations signed on to a joint statement seeking for the non-use and abolition of nuclear weapons at a meeting of the United Nations in October, and that more and more countries are endorsing a resolution to demand the launch of international talks on an NWC. “It is absolutely unacceptable that the U.S. sticks to nuclear deterrence policy and the possession of nuclear weapons, and pushes ahead with new nuclear weapons development in arrogant defiance of global efforts calling for the total ban of nuclear weapons,” it stresses.
Takahashi Nobuo, representing the Hiroshima Gensuikyo, said, “Let’s send out Hiroshima’s message of peace to the world in order to further isolate the United States.”
The U.S. government recently announced that it conducted a new-type of nuclear testing at facilities in New Mexico between July and September in order to evaluate the performance of its nuclear weapons.
The Hiroshima Council against A and H Bombs (Hiroshima Gensuikyo) and the Hiroshima Federation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Hiroshima Hidankyo) staged a sit-in protest on November 1 in front of the cenotaph for A-bomb victims in Hiroshima City, with 55 atomic-bomb survivors and their supporters participating. The slogan on the demonstrators’ banner read, “Stop new nuclear weapons development! Start international negotiations on a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)!”
The participants also adopted a resolution of protest. The resolution notes that a record high of 125 nations signed on to a joint statement seeking for the non-use and abolition of nuclear weapons at a meeting of the United Nations in October, and that more and more countries are endorsing a resolution to demand the launch of international talks on an NWC. “It is absolutely unacceptable that the U.S. sticks to nuclear deterrence policy and the possession of nuclear weapons, and pushes ahead with new nuclear weapons development in arrogant defiance of global efforts calling for the total ban of nuclear weapons,” it stresses.
Takahashi Nobuo, representing the Hiroshima Gensuikyo, said, “Let’s send out Hiroshima’s message of peace to the world in order to further isolate the United States.”
