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Kishida calls nuclear threat ‘increasingly real’ as nonproliferation goals fade | The Japan Times
By Johnson J.
[Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima on Aug 06, 1945]
Fumio Kishida, the prime minister of Japan, has raised a specter of nuclear weapons potentially being used by Russia against Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He claims the possibility of it happening is becoming more and more real and that Russia might use smaller nuclear weapons which would be a huge setback for international nonproliferation goals and break the ice for 7 decades of zero nuclear weapon use. Russia president Vladimir Putin has already put his country’s atomic forces on alert for the possibility if he gets triggered in Ukraine by armed forces of other countries helping out.
Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, made a visit to Hiroshima to chat with Kishida about the issue. Back in 1945 when WWII was taking place, the U.S. dropped the world’s first and only use of the atomic bomb in the war on the city of Hiroshima, killing more than 200,000 civilians. However, the world nowadays is not remotely the same as 70 years ago and the use of nuclear weapons can alter the lives of everyone living on this planet.
Along with Russia, China and North Korea are also increasing their efforts in creating and storing nuclear weapons which concerns Kishida as it could directly impact other East Asian countries because of the lack of trust between countries and no one can really predict what is going to happen.
Sources:
History.com. (1945, August 6). Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima [Photograph]. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fthis-day-in-history%2Famerican-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima&psig=AOvVaw0iJFLYpNVhXo3FuBF04FGT&ust=1648492840031000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCMi05cT45vYCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
Johnson, J. (2022, March 27). Kishida calls nuclear threat ‘increasingly real’ as nonproliferation goals fade. The Japan Times. Retrieved March 27, 2022, from https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/27/national/politics-diplomacy/kishida-japan-nuclear-russia-ukraine/