{"id":49759,"date":"2022-10-30T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/hiroshima-survivors-plead-for-nuclear-free-world-as-global-tensions-rise"},"modified":"2022-10-30T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T04:00:16","slug":"hiroshima-survivors-plead-for-nuclear-free-world-as-global-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49759","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima survivors plead for nuclear-free world as global tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North Korea<\/p>\n<p>Toshiyuki Mimaki was playing in front of his family home in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945 when he saw a flash in the sky \u2013 the moment the then three-year-old became witness to the world\u2019s first atomic bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Almost eight decades on, the spectre of nuclear war has returned with greater menace than at any time since the cold war, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/russia-nuclear-weapons-putin-threat\">Vladimir Putin\u2019s threats against Ukraine<\/a> and North Korea\u2019s seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/04\/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-prompting-warnings-for-residents-to-shelter\">unstoppable rise to the status of nuclear-armed state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/hiroshima-survivors-plead-for-nuclear-free-world-as-global-tensions-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North KoreaToshiyuki Mimaki was playing in front of his family home in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945 when he saw a flash in the sky \u2013 the moment the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,40,441,419,220,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-second-world-war","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49760,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49759\/revisions\/49760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}