Japan backed nuke deterrence before Obama's Prague speech
2018-04-03 10:03:30 source：Asahi Shimbun
April 2, 2018
Just months before then U.S. President Barack Obama famously called for a world without nuclear weapons, Japanese officials were urging the United States to maintain its nuclear deterrence in a hearing in Washington.
The call before the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States by officials of the only nation to be hit by atomic weapons in war took many in the U.S. government by surprise.
"Everybody, senators, congressmen, staffs of the government and experts are talking about this meeting," said Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The (Japanese) Foreign Ministry said these kind of things and they were surprised."
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