Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sidestepped a commitment to maintain Japan’s decades-old pledge not to produce, possess or host nuclear weapons on its territory, opening up the possibility of revisions to the stance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/japan/politics/takaichi-nonnuclear-principles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #nuclearweapons #defense #china #usmilitary
A Japanese nuclear-weapons program would unavoidably serve as proliferation kindling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/11/japan/japan-should-resist-going-nuclear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #nuclearweapons #defense #sdf #us #china #russia #northkorea
While support for Japan's nuclear-weapons abolitionist groups is increasing, the average age of hibakusha has exceeded 86. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/nihon-hidankyo-nobel-peace-prize-one-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nobelpeaceprize #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #nuclearweapons
Nuclear-armed North Korea fired off an unidentified ballistic missile on Friday, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo said, with the missile apparently landing outside Japan's exclusive economic zone. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/north-korea-missile-november-7/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #northkorea #southkorea #defense #defenseministry #missiles #nuclearweapons #sanaetakaichi
Scientists and scholars from around the globe gathered in Hiroshima and demanded, in a joint declaration Wednesday, that nuclear powers never use the weapons of mass destruction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/scientists-abolition-nuclear-weapons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings
U.S. President Donald Trump has said China and Russia have secretly conducted underground nuclear weapons tests, using the claim to justify his surprise order for the United States to begin its own tests. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/trump-nuclear-tests-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #nuclearweapons #china #russia
The nuclear weapons testing ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump will not involve nuclear explosions at this time, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/politics/us-nuclear-explosions-secretary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #defense #nuclearweapons #china #russia
During the five-day conference in the city, scientists and other experts will discuss on topics such as nuclear disarmament and Middle East security. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/02/japan/pugwash-nuclear-abolition-conference-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons
North Korea said on Saturday that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which South Korea said will be discussed in a summit with China later that day, is an unrealizable "pipe dream," according to state-run media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/asia-pacific/north-korea-denuclearization-pipe-dream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #northkorea #southkorea #nuclearweapons #china #xijinping #leejaemyung
Some 890 tons of Tepco's spent nuclear fuel are stored at Japan Nuclear Fuel's reprocessing plant under construction in Aomori Prefecture — the first time a specific company's amount at the site has been confirmed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/japan/tepco-nuclear-fuel-aomori-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearenergy #nuclearweapons #nuclearwaste #japanatomicpower #tepco #aomori
By ordering a resumption of nuclear testing, U.S. President Donald Trump risks an expanded arms race that could benefit China, experts say — something especially concerning given the shaky status of arms control efforts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/world/politics/trump-nuclear-testing-arms-race/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #china #russia #usmilitary
President Donald Trump reiterated Friday that he wants testing of U.S. nuclear weapons, but again failed to clarify whether he meant live explosions in an order that has provoked global tension and confusion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/01/world/politics/trump-nuclear-tests-confusion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #nuclearweapons
Nagasaki’s mayor on Thursday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to restart nuclear tests, calling it “absolutely unacceptable.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/japan/nagasaki-mayor-trump-nuclearg/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nagasaki #shirosuzuki #donaldtrump #us #usjapanrelations #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nobelprize
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to restart the testing of nuclear weapons has raised fears and confusion in Washington. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-nuclear-testing-curveball/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #china #russia
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of 33 years, a move that seemed to be a message to rival nuclear powers China and Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/nuclear-testing-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump #china #russia #northkorea
A new catastrophe will soon befall humanity if US and others resume #NuclearTesting,which has caused 1000s of deaths
We must absolutely recreate a #MassMovement against #NuclearWeapons
Look at what the mass movement and #Gorbachev achieved in the '80s
(credit: Frank von Hippel)
if you haven't watched #AHouseOfDynamite, you should. It is NOT a masterpiece like #DrStrangelove, but it is worth to understand the absolute urgency to rebuild a #MassMovement against #NuclearWeapons
A new catastrophe will soon befall humanity if US and others resume #NuclearTesting,which has caused 1000s of deaths
We must absolutely recreate a #MassMovement against #NuclearWeapons
Look at what the mass movement and #Gorbachev achieved in the '80s
(credit: Frank von Hippel)
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Washington will share its closely held nuclear tech to allow Seoul to build nuclear-powered submarines in the United States, a move that could have implications for Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/asia-pacific/south-korea-us-nuclear-powered-submarines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #us #southkorea #donaldtrump #nuclearenergy #submarines #asia #defense #leejaemyung #southkoreajapanrelations #nuclearweapons
U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/trump-pentagon-testing-nuclear-weapons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #nuclearweapons #us #china #russia #donaldtrump
Lisa Melton
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#Trump directs #Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing #US #NuclearWeapons
US president references #China & #Russia in Truth Social post shortly before meeting with President #Xi Jinping
In a Wednesday post to Truth Social, Trump said that, “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”
#kakistocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-pentagon-us-nuclear-weapons
