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  • A-Bomb Victims Stage Rally in Hiroshima Against U.S. Nuclear Warship

    10/29/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT · by ncountylee · 229 replies · 3,081+ views
    ap.tbo ^ | October 29, 2005 | AP
    TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said. The protest came as talks got underway between top Japanese and American security officials on how to realign the U.S. military presence in Japan. About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who...