INTERVIEW: Hiroshima Gov. to press for nuke abolition in NPT confab as "only" way

Hiroshima Gov. Mika Yokota plans to press for ridding the world of nuclear weapons at a major nuclear disarmament conference starting later this month in New York, calling abolition the "only means to escape from the threats" posed by such weapons in a recent interview.Yokota will be the first governor of Hiroshima Prefecture to make a speech at a nongovernmental organization session of the conference, held to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The mayors of Japan's atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki also plan to attend the gathering to deliver antinuclear messages."Co…READ FULL ARTICLE