By ROY K. AKAGAWA/ AJW Staff Writer
July 29, 2023 at 19:14 JST
Elayne Whyte, who chaired the 2017 negotiations that led to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, delivers the keynote address at the International Symposium for Peace, “The Road to Nuclear Weapons Abolition: For Hiroshima and Nagasaki to serve as ‘the check’ on nuclear war” held on July 29 in Hiroshima. (Mihoko Takizawa)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, coupled with the much-derided Group of Seven summit in May, cast a long shadow over an international symposium on the abolition of nuclear weapons held in Hiroshima on July 29. [Read More]
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