In nuclear-scarred Japan, Trump’s weapons testing call rankles bomb survivors
‘In a nuclear war, there are no winners or losers; all of humanity becomes the loser,’ Hiroshima-based organisations say
More than 200,000 people were killed when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, the only time nuclear weapons have been used during warfare.
Survivors, known as hibakusha, have battled decades of physical and psychological trauma as well as the stigma that often came with being a victim.
The directive “directly contradicts the efforts by nations around the world striving for a peaceful world without nuclear weapons and is utterly unacceptable”, the survivors group said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Agence France-Presse on Friday.
The mayor of Nagasaki also condemned Trump’s order, saying it “trampled on the efforts of people around the world who have been sweating blood and tears to realise a world without nuclear weapons”.