Hiroshima hopes to invite Obama as advocate of nuke-free world

Tuesday 30th December, 06:00 AM JST

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AlfGarnett at 03:31 AM JST - 31st December

OssanAmerica- Stumpped you there didn't i? Tee Hee!

Obama, tell the cheeky bleeders to bugger off and teach their kids the truth about the war and why Nuclear bombs have saved Japan from becoming a commie state.
itcher74 at 04:11 AM JST - 31st December

Just by remembering what nukes did to the people of Hiroshima. Killing thousands of people in just a few seconds should be reason good enough for why nukes should never ever be used again and why we should work towards a nuke free world. Good luck to the people of Hiroshima. You have my support.
kenjinakasone at 11:21 AM JST - 31st December

200,000 people were incinerated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

more pandering to the master, as usual.
USARonin at 11:24 AM JST - 31st December

Kenjinakasone, more people died during the 'fire bombing' of Germany by the British. -And in more horrific ways.
USARonin at 11:27 AM JST - 31st December

Well, I don't fault students for bein' young, idealistic and naieve.

Folks, the world ain't gonna be "nuke-free". The genie's out of the bottle. For an adult to even suggest it displays a gross amount of stupidity - not naievete. For you: Visualize world peas.
VOR at 11:35 AM JST - 31st December

Obama said a lot of stuff during the campaign knowing full well he would not be able to fulfill once he assumed the office of the presidency. A nuclear weapon free world is a lofty ideal all could agree on but completely unrealistic until some other weapon renders them useless.

I hope he does visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and speak about the world becoming a more peaceful place and maybe mention that the last 60 years of relative peace in the region is not a result of wishful thinking.
bamboohat at 09:37 PM JST - 31st December

Hiromi Peterson, who teaches Japanese at the school, decided to help as being involved in the project would help her students to learn about the nature of war.

Here's the nature of war folks: Whoever makes the other side give up by killing the most people, wins. Japan lost, but kids, guess what, they really wanted to win. that is kids, your peaceful nation didn't kill nearly as many people as they'd hoped.
Sarge at 09:58 PM JST - 31st December

bamboohat - Daaaaayum! But you know what? Things have changed since WW2. We've got smart bombs now that we can deliver into certain windows into certain buildings or certain caves. Not necessary to use nukes or even carpet bomb.

Happy New Year!
Starviking at 11:40 PM JST - 31st December

Bringing this back onto the subject of the piece - it's not the nukes that are bad, after all - they're just inanimate things. If you can tackle the urges to kill and destroy it'd be a better thing - and that's what Hiroshima should push for - international understanding.
NeoJamal at 07:52 PM JST - 1st January
So, what is the most realistic lesson Japanese can learn from Hiroshima? is it:
1. In the case a foreign power threatens Japan with nuclear weapons: capitulate.
2. The quantity of total nuclear weapons yield available should be limited under non-proliferation accords, that is..the possession of such nuclear weapons should be limited to the 5 permament UNSC members (which Japan is not), if one of these states threatens Japan with nuclear weapons, see 1.
cwhite at 09:30 PM JST - 1st January

Nukes aren't much of a deterrent to terrorists, religious nuts and totalitarian leaders. While Nukes will devastate towns and cities of the average citizen, the ones who start the wars will be 100's of miles aways in some secret bunker if not hiding in enemy territory.

The assumption is that the killer or person who starts a Nuke war is afraid of getting Nuked themselves, but we all well know that their are plenty of suicidal people out there both military, religious and common.

How about 5 Nukes allowed per country or 1 Nuke per 10million citizens or should we distribute per land mass.
LIBERTAS at 03:23 AM JST - 3rd January

Hiroshima hopes to invite Obama as advocate of nuke-free world. Hope is a wonderful thing!
USARonin at 03:28 AM JST - 3rd January

Libertas, you don't seriously believe Obama's seriously gonna push for a new-free US, do ya?

He's already spoken his intentions to be more hawk-like than John McCain ever would've been.

Seriously.
USARonin at 03:33 AM JST - 3rd January

"nuke-free"
Nordon at 08:55 AM JST - 4th January

NeoJamal

Japan is under the protective umbrella (oh so moe!) of the USA.

A nuclear threat to Japan is a threat to the US, also it's fairly close to China's backyard, so they wouldn't like that either.

Also while I like your idea, it needs teeth against those countries who would develope nukes outside the Five, ie Rogue States like N. Korea.

However I don't know what you'd do with countries like India and Pakistan who already have nukes. You'd have to give them HUGE concessions to take away their nukes and no one wants to pay that much.