A world without nuclear weapons is needed, Japanese cardinal says

A world without nuclear weapons is needed, Japanese cardinal says

MUMBAI, India – A world without nuclear weapons is not unrealistic, the archbishop of Tokyo said marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima in Japan. On the closing days of World War II, 90,000–166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, after The Enola Gay bomber dropped the “Little Boy” Uranium fission nuclear bomb on the city. Another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Japan off…

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"We are in a new nuclear arms race with multiple nuclear actors, new cyber weapons and artificial intelligence. Robert McNamara, Department of Defense secretary during the Cuban Missile Crisis, said we survived only by luck. Luck is not a sustainable survival strategy. Nuclear weapons are indiscriminate killers; therefore, they are immoral. Nuclear disarmament is a…