Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement


Nuclear victims in missile demo

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the Edinburgh Evening News site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Sign In
Register
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 25 July 2007
A GROUP of Japanese atom bomb survivors were due to blockade the Trident nuclear base at Faslane today, protesting at plans to renew the weapon system.
The survivors are from Nagasaki, where more than 70,000 people died after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city at the end of the Second World War.

They were set to take part in a peaceful blockade, bringing water from the Peace Park at the Nagasaki bomb's ground zero.

Mitsugu Moriguchi, who was nine when the Nagasaki bomb was dropped, said: "Deploying and preparing to use this nuclear weapon is to prepare to commit mass murder.



The full article contains 109 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 25 July 2007 9:52 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Faslane
 
1

Petroleum Head,

Edinburgh 25/07/2007 17:33:36

The thing is that the presence and threat of nuclear weapons has KEPT THE PEACE for the last 60 years or more.

What happened to the people of Japan was undoubtedly awful but it had the effect of demonstrating to the world exactly what nuclear weapons were capable of and therefore disuaded their use, when the agressors knew that they stood a very good chance of getting a taste of their own medicine.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that had we not had nuclear weapons then there would have been more than one occasion during the cold war when we would have been in receipt of something big and nasty, with a hammer and sickle painted on it.


 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
RSS Feed of this article's comments
Delivery formats: RSS, Atom, Javascript & Email
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.