Leaders Issue Calls to Action on the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings

摘要

Hidehiko Yuzaki, governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Aug. 6 Why…has the call of the [atomic bomb] victims and of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the abolition of nuclear weapons been betrayed for such a long time? The situation surrounding nuclear weapons. There are still more than 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world, with the nuclear-weapon countries continuing to modernize their nuclear forces. Today, as nuclear disarmament continues to stagnate, the situation concerning the elimination of nuclear weapons is extremely bleak. This is indicated by the lapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty; the unilateral U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA); Iran's suspension of the fulfillment of some JCPOA requirements; and the issue of the extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which is scheduled to expire next year.