Tag

Japan’s pacifist Constitution, which has lasted for over 70 years, will now just exist in name only. The cost could be a third lost decade.

Tens of thousands of people were ordered to flee homes across Japan yesterday as heavy rain pounded the country, sending radiation-tainted waters into the ocean at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama and apologize for Japan’s past aggression, however, those that had waited with bated breath for Abe’s statement on Friday, a day before the...

He said the world till bristles with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. However, one US publication has made a rather freakish claim.

Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.

Per Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those three principles are, “not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons, in line with Japan’s Peace Constitution”.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

On August 6, 1945, the US atomic bomb “Little Boy” detonated about 2,000 feet above Hiroshima killing around 140,000 people.

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

He promised that Japan would continue to abide by its long-held principles: not producing, possessing or allowing nuclear weapons on Japanese territory.

In the UK, the current military nuclear weapon system, Trident, is often criticised as being too expensive to maintain and unnecessary in its mission to keep world peace by some politicians and political parties.

ArticleFive things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombingWorld War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, Japan.

Three days later, Gackenbach flew over the city of Kokura in support of dropping the second atomic bomb.

Thursday marks 70 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.

In Hiroshima a bell tolled at 08:15 local time – when US aircraft B-29 Enola Gay dropped the bomb that flattened the city centre.