Posted on 03/26/2022 7:28:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was "increasingly real", welcoming a visit by the U.S. ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack.
Japan, the only country attacked by atomic weapons, has regularly spoken out against nuclear armaments. Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, visited the city's peace memorial and museum on Saturday with envoy Rahm Emanuel.
“When the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia is increasingly real, I believe Ambassador Emanuel's visit to Hiroshima and his experience of seeing the nuclear reality will become a strong message to the international society," Kishida told public broadcaster NHK.
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Read “One Second After” if you’d like to imagine surviving just a simple EMP attack over the U.S.
Great book. I recommend the whole series.
They oughta know.
Yup—Japan actually sends the wrong message.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.
Hiroshima has 1.3 million population.
Nagasaki has 429K population.
The ballerina found himself another crisis to exploit.
LOL!!
Maybe he needs to stop talking about taking back Kuril Islands?
Kishida and the Japanese goobermint continue to be USSA lapdogs .
—”Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.”
A massive difference between then and now.
“How much larger are today’s nuclear weapons compared to what was dropped on Japan?
These are the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, to date, and let’s hope it stays that way—because some of the nuclear weapons today are over 3,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a23306/nuclear-bombs-powerful-today/
Yup—Japan actually sends the wrong message.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today.
Hiroshima has 1.3 million population.
Nagasaki has 429K population.
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You make an excellent point.
It creates a subliminal message
that nukes aren’t “ that bad” , “ survivable” and won’t lead to a global nuke war.
The message Japan should have sent was
” don’t let Joe
goad you into what
our imperial military
and our last emporer
did , world war “.
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