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Hiroshima survivor urges UK to join the Treaty to ban nuclear weapons

Categories: Articles:Nuclear Weapons, Resources:Nuclear Weapons | Published: 24/08/2020 | Views: 357

Setsuko Thurlow was a 13-year-old schoolgirl when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her city, Hiroshima.  Setsuko wrote to Boris Johnson telling him what happened on that day in 1945, she urged him to sign the UK up to the treaty to ban nuclear weapons.  This is the UK governments repsonse to that letter.



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