Nuclear weapons ban backed
Symon Hill reports on connections between Hiroshima and churches in Britain
The mayor of Hiroshima has backed a campaign by British churches to eliminate nuclear weapons. Tadatoshi Akiba, whose city was the first to suffer the horror of nuclear attack, was speaking on the eve of the nuclear non-proliferation summit, which opened in New York this week. Quakers have formed an alliance with other British churches to launch ‘Now is the Time’, a major anti-nuclear campaign.
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