Japan protests against US nuclear test (thank goodness!)

[ensho]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146663.html


Mayors of Japanese nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have protested against a new nuclear test conducted by the United States in September.


"I am outraged by your trampling on the expectations and hopes of the A-bomb survivors and the vast majority of Earth's inhabitants and on behalf of the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, I vehemently protest," Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said in a letter to US President Barack Obama on Thursday.

The United States had carried out a subcritical atomic test in Nevada on September 15 under Obama, who received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for calling for a world without nuclear arms.

Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue also expressed regret over the test, saying, "The experiment is a reversal from an international trend for a world without nuclear weapons."

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why in hell are we doing a nuke test! this is sickening.

[KoKo]

1. Aren't the nuclear tests always publicized? Anyone remember hearing about this here in the US?

Seems odd that someone wouldn't have had an article about it.

[Parker CA]

2. Strange that there wasn't a single peep from the media about this test. Anyone hear about it before

this piece?

[GSLevel9]

3. red herring. There was no nuclear explosion. This test

was a type of test not even banned by international non nuke proliferation treaties.

[GSLevel9]

4. presstv.ir???????

Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Its headquarters are located in Tehran, Iran, with worldwide bureaux in Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), London (UK), and Seoul (South Korea).

yeah, makes sense now...