Kishida blames Russia for opposition at nuclear conference

saying Russia should take the blame for its opposition.

Yeah, well it wasn't Russia who bombed the innocent people in Japan in world war II. Nuclear weapons are never going to disappear. Always blaming Russia. for everything.

Being that it all collapsed because of Russia, this is an obvious and fair statement. Russia deserves all the blame it gets.

Does Japan really lead by example of any involvement in the future for NPT, no at all, even speech in the beginning of this month in UN largely rhetorical.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220802/p2g/00m/0na/025000c

Yeah, well it wasn't Russia who bombed the innocent people in Japan in world war II. 

But Russia opposed the NPT consensus, which is what it is being accused for.

Blaming Russia for things it has done is perfectly valid.

Yeah, well it wasn't Russia who bombed the innocent people in Japan in world war II.

That was not the issue and the Japanese PM is obviously aware of that.

Nuclear weapons are never going to disappear.

People need to continue trying to eliminate them for as long as Humanity remains fractured.

Always blaming Russia. for everything.

Not at all, simply blaming Russia for what it IS responsible for. Overlooking the obvious Russian fault on this issue shows an inability to face the facts and is excusing the guilty due to biased opinions.

"...as he is pushing for a world without nuclear weapons as a lawmaker representing a constituency in atomic-bombed Hiroshima."

Excuse me? his push for a world without nuclear weapons? This is a guy who changed those exact words into, "Nations with nuclear weapons shouldn't use them against innocent nations with none". The guy won't sign a ban on them, and he does not want a world without them. Russia is certainly to blame in part, but he is almost equally to blame as well, and even worse since he lies about his intentions. He wants the protection they offer as a deterrent, but doesn't want them in the hands of the enemy... errr... gas production partner... errr.

Yeah, well it wasn't Russia who bombed the innocent people in Japan in world war II. Nuclear weapons are never going to disappear. Always blaming Russia. for everything

Japan had a nuclear weapons program during WWII and plans to use them against US forces from Kamikazi aircraft. The US got lucky. A B-29 raid that missed the intended target took out a Japanese nuclear lab the US had no idea existed until the Japanese declassified some documents in the 1980s. If the US had not used them first Japan fully intended to use them against the Allies.

Yeah, well it wasn't Russia who bombed the innocent people in Japan in world war II. Nuclear weapons are never going to disappear. Always blaming Russia. for everything.

Yeah, this is an article about bad stuff Russia is doing today, not an article about what the US did 77 years ago.

And Russia should always be blamed for everything Russia does the same way the US is blamed for everything the US does, shouldn’t it?

Kishida blames

shocker

A Japanese is blaming someone else?

 If the US had not used them first Japan fully intended to use them against the Allies.

So that is what you tell yourself to justify the US nuking the helpless women and children of the then defeated Japan.

Well, I have no doubt you were able to convince yourself.

Good job!

Considering how its ground forces have been performing in Ukraine, it's no wonder they want to hold onto their nukes. They're the only thing that differentiates Russia from, say, Mexico.

He unveiled an action plan toward realizing a nuclear-free world

he is restarting elderly NPPs on active fault lines and making us pay and host USA bases that have nuclear weapons. Can’t understand him.

Everyone knows Japan never signs the NPT & Japan relied on supporting the US nuclear umbrella policy. This is a very disgusting show from Mr.Kishida, he needs attentionsattention as his popularity falling in his own country!

Russia's opposition is right and legitimate, NATO expansion is a threat and Russia should let western countries know their nuclear deterrence is serious.

China is strongly backing Russia over this matter!

Russia's opposition is right and legitimate, NATO expansion is a threat and Russia should let western countries know their nuclear deterrence is serious.

How is the expansion of peace and prosperity a threat? It may threaten the ideals of a few who want unquestioned and unopposed power to do as they like as Putin is doing now in Ukraine.

Western Europe and central and eastern European nations now making up NATO with Canada and the US, Just who are they oppressing? What territory have they invaded and annexed? They have settled disputes in the fractured Yugoslavia leaving some much happier and safer than before, and other's angry at the outcome, but no nation has invaded and taken territory for expansion of their countries. Autocrats do not like NATO. That is understood. But NATO threatens nobody. It was brought about to keep peace in a Europe that had been involved in two major conflicts in 25 years costing tens of millions of lives and destruction on a scale never seen before in Europe. It has for the most part been successful.

The oration of NATO being dangerous is nonsense and the educated world knows this well. Those opposed to peace and prosperity will continue to speak against those who want to live their lives in freedom and with options for their futures, without the likes of Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Jinping Xi and Kim Jong-un and those of their ilk forcing their lives to be at the discretion of the state, for their leaders benefit or to be locked away by justice systems that are bereft of justice for speaking out or telling the truth.

That people so easily voice their support for such systems, while living in the "hated democracies" that they also discredit and decry is baffling to say the least.

That’s a completely useless discussion. Mankind is just too stupid and has a too violent and sick mindset to abolish nuclear armament. They all haven‘t done it for 77 years, so why does anyone expect they would do it now? No, in contrary, although everyone has seen what will happen, it’s even getting worse and quite some countries pile up more, modernize or upgrade their arsenal and additional another some countries desperately try to get their hands on a few atomic bombs as a kind of ‘insurance’ too.

I saw what happened in Planet of the Apes. It doesn't end well.

Peter14, people in the Americas,are not interested in protecting,no European,now that they are reaping what they sowed with Putin ,the first shall be last,and the last shall be first

Russia would have probably nixxed anything put in front of it anyway, such is their desire to be as loathesome as possible, but why did they include any reference to Zaporizhzhia? It just gives them an excuse to be obstinate.

The bottom line is that nuclear weapons will never disappear. The reason is the ease of cheating. For the sake of argument let's say all the nuclear powers agreed to fully eliminate all of their nuclear arms. All it would take is for one of these nations to cheat and hide a handful of weapons somewhere to hold the rest of the world hostage once the other powers disarmed. It is impossible to verify every nuclear weapon every nation has is eliminated.

I think you can reduce nuclear arsenals to very small numbers with acceptable reliability. At that point a cheater who managed to stash a few extras away unknown to the disarmament authorities doesn't matter so much. But no nuclear power is going to fully relinquish their nuclear weapons knowing that one of their nuclear peers is going to hide a few that nobody knows about and in some future foreign policy conflict, use those hidden weapons to blackmail the world and get their way. The benefits of cheating are just too great to resist.

They have settled disputes in the fractured Yugoslavia leaving some much happier and safer than before, and other's angry at the outcome.

The intervention in the Balkans was a UN sanctioned operation under the command of a General appointed to the post by the UN. The ground and air forces involved included a number of non-NATO and neutral nations like Switzerland and Austria. At one time or another the United Nations Protection Force in the Balkans had Indian Army, Swedish Army and French Army commanding Generals. In the Tuzla Zone of SFOR, the UN force in Bosnia & Herzegovina, there were forces from the US, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Turkey and Poland. Hard to argue it was a NATO operation when you had neutral nations like Sweden commanding the force and Russian forces working alongside Swedish, US and others.

Of course Russia's going to oppose it. They're in the right in the middle of causing some of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen.

They're not stoppin' for anyone because they're so bat**** crazy.

YrralAug. 28 07:51 pm JST

Peter14, people in the Americas,are not interested in protecting,no European,now that they are reaping what they sowed with Putin ,the first shall be last,and the last shall be first

People in America want a peaceful world like any sensible people. The US as the preeminent world power looks to protect itself, its sphere of friends and allies which includes Europe. I think some selfish, self centered people like yourself Larry want the US to do nothing but look after itself and let China and Russia rule the world with autocratic oppressive rule as long as America remains safe and unaffected in a little bubble.

The bottom line is that nuclear weapons will never disappear. The reason is the ease of cheating. For the sake of argument let's say all the nuclear powers agreed to fully eliminate all of their nuclear arms. All it would take is for one of these nations to cheat and hide a handful of weapons somewhere to hold the rest of the world hostage once the other powers disarmed.

I think those Nuclear armed nations can put together nuclear weapons within a small amount of time even if they disarm. Those with nuclear reactors can maintain an ability to put simple bombs together in weeks and to have missile launched versions ready in months.

The Technology is out there and the blueprints for manufacturing them is archived. Blackmail would last the length of time it takes other nations to get a few devices activated then the blackmail ends.

I recall my parents telling me about the news of Pearl Harbor being bombed, basically their 9/11. Perhaps it was even worse since it was a foreign government sanctioned hit job. Anyway, I remember them saying that the anger they felt, as well as that of most Americans, towards the Japanese was more intense than that against the Germans. The infamous Bataan Death March and beheadings of U.S. POWs followed a few months later, which reinforced the U. S. feeling that the Japanese were savages. Racial differences aside, there were already many reasons, rightly or wrongly, to inflict as much pain and suffering on the Japanese . . . at that time. In retrospect, things could have been done which were more humane, but the emotions during those times were of intense anger. Thankfully, we are way beyond that and are good friends today who try to cooperate and help one another as allies.

”War is hell.” … Gen. William T. Sherman

I think those Nuclear armed nations can put together nuclear weapons within a small amount of time even if they disarm. 

No. The hardest part of making a nuclear weapon is to produce a “critical mass” of either U-235 or the plutonium isotope Pu-239 in the right ratios. In the case of uranium, U-235 must be enriched to ratio of 80% or more. In the case of plutonium, the weapon must contain 97% or more Pu-239 compared to the contaminant isotope Pu-241. Uranium enriched to 80% in U-235 or plutonium enriched to 97% in Pu-239 are called weapons-grade material while P241 is a contaminant that must be disposed of.

All uranium reactors produce plutonium as a waste product, but the longer the nuclear fuel is present in the reactor, the more the contaminant isotope Pu-241 builds in the remaining fuel. At the end of a nuclear burn the remaining fuel is removed and becomes nuclear waste. The nuclear waste contains both Pu-239 and Pu-241. The problem is that Pu-239 becomes Pu-241 rapidly. That means the reactor must be defueled every month or so to extract the Pu-239 before it can pick up two more neutrons and become Pu-241. Commercial reactors generally operate for one or two years before replacing their fuel. This long cycle time of a commercial power reactor means that the Pu-239 concentration is 83% or less, rendering the plutonium useless for weapons. One can enrich the 5% U-235 used in commercial reactors to 80% using centrifuges but this too is slow work. Even after four years of the Manhattan Project the US had only enough high enriched U-235 for a single weapon, the Tall Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima. No, it is not a simple matter to build up the fissile necessary to make nuclear weapons if a nation honestly disarms.