“No Nuclear Sharing”. Japan does not want to have American nuclear weapons at home

The Japanese Prime Minister Shiger IShiba has distanced himself from the concept of entering into an agreement with a nuclear weapon on the model of NATO. During the Wednesday celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the prime minister emphasized that his government did not intend to leave the current policy regarding nuclear weapons.

Isehiba stated at a press conference that Japan “it firmly supports and there is no search plans“The so -called three non -noisy principles, i.e.

• not having,
• unsolvation,
• not allowing the presence of nuclear weapons in its territory.

At the same time, he marked the need to strengthen American deterrence, which includes nuclear abilities. – This is not in contradiction with our position about the final realization of the world free from nuclear weapons – argued the prime minister cited by the Kyodo agency.

Isehiba, before he took the position of the head of the government in the autumn of 2024, proposed the creation of the Asian version of NATO and suggested that this organization could consider participating in the American program “Nuclear Sharing”, i.e. sharing nuclear weapons in the region, as a deterrent to the growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia.

The prime minister drew attention during the Wednesday conference to the seriousness of the security situation around Japan, indicating in particular that there are countries with nuclear weapons in the region.

On August 6, 1945, in the final phase of World War II, the ENOLA Gay Bomber of the US Air Force dropped an atomic bomb that broke out over the city of Hiroshima. The explosion and the effects of radiation alone caused the death of 130-140 thousand by the end of 1945. residents of Hiroshima.

Krzysztof Pawliszak (PAP)

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