"Yes to Peace"

"Eradicating the nuclear threat is more urgent than ever," warned Longridge. Since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, eight nations in addition to the United States have acquired nuclear weapons - Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and N Korea. "Countries with nuclear weapons must lead by example and eliminate their arsenals." "Japan too must strengthen its call for peace and nuclear disarmament, it should start by abandoning plans to begin for plutonium production at the Rokkasho-Mura reprocessing plant " said Atsuko Nogawa of Greenpeace Japan. "So long as deadly substances like plutonium are produced, the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation will always exist.