The confirmation ended decades of official denial that such secret pacts existed, negating the significance of Japan's three Non-Nuclear Principles of: Non-possession, Non-production, and Non- introduction of nuclear weapons, principles embraced by many citizens as post-war Japan become a staunch ...
The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place in early August, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of between 150,000 and 250,000 people, most of them civilians. The US authorities said the demonstration of force sped up Japan’s capitulation and prevented a land operation on the ...
For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Japanese organization against nuclear weapons gives them hope for a new momentum to push for a nuclear