Nagasaki survivor urges nuke weapons abolition at U.N. treaty confab

An 83-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Nagasaki called Monday for the elimination of nuclear weapons in his speech at the onset of a five-day U.N. meeting in New York."We're faced with a growing risk of nuclear war" and the devastation in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip is reminiscent of the suffering caused by the 1945 atomic bomb attacks, Sueichi Kido told a session of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.The treaty, which took effect in January 2021, had 69 countries and territories as members as of early November. But the parties do not include countries th…READ FULL ARTICLE