arnadstephen
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_) Hell, I bet Japan already has the ability
to put togethor nuclear weapons in 1-3 days.
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August 8,2003 (Eastern Standard Time USA)
Japan Ponders Building Nuclear Arsenal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:02 p.m. ET
TOKYO (AP) -- Just a few years ago, talk about possessing nuclear weapons would have been the pinnacle of taboo in Japan, the only nation to suffer atomic attacks.
But the nuclear ambitions of neighboring North Korea now have this nation thinking the unthinkable, even as it marks the anniversaries this week of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings -- should Japan have its own atomic arsenal.
``People are clearly waking up to the idea,'' lawmaker Shingo Nishimura says of the new willingness to debate the issue. ``They feel something is wrong with Japan.''
Nishimura was forced to resign as a vice minister for defense back in 1999 just for suggesting Japan should consider going nuclear.
Now he's a popular opposition lawmaker who gets to air his nuclear views on prime-time TV talk shows.
Yasuo Fukuda and Shintaro Abe, two prominent ruling party politicians and top advisers to the prime minister, are among other leaders who have broached the once-shunned issue within the last year, asserting that Japan has the right to bear nuclear arms.
``Japan must start saying right now that it might go nuclear,'' said Tadae Takubo, professor of policy at Kyorin University. ``For a nation to entirely forsake nuclear weapons is like taking part in a boxing match and promising not to throw hooks.''
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to put togethor nuclear weapons in 1-3 days.
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August 8,2003 (Eastern Standard Time USA)
Japan Ponders Building Nuclear Arsenal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:02 p.m. ET
TOKYO (AP) -- Just a few years ago, talk about possessing nuclear weapons would have been the pinnacle of taboo in Japan, the only nation to suffer atomic attacks.
But the nuclear ambitions of neighboring North Korea now have this nation thinking the unthinkable, even as it marks the anniversaries this week of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings -- should Japan have its own atomic arsenal.
``People are clearly waking up to the idea,'' lawmaker Shingo Nishimura says of the new willingness to debate the issue. ``They feel something is wrong with Japan.''
Nishimura was forced to resign as a vice minister for defense back in 1999 just for suggesting Japan should consider going nuclear.
Now he's a popular opposition lawmaker who gets to air his nuclear views on prime-time TV talk shows.
Yasuo Fukuda and Shintaro Abe, two prominent ruling party politicians and top advisers to the prime minister, are among other leaders who have broached the once-shunned issue within the last year, asserting that Japan has the right to bear nuclear arms.
``Japan must start saying right now that it might go nuclear,'' said Tadae Takubo, professor of policy at Kyorin University. ``For a nation to entirely forsake nuclear weapons is like taking part in a boxing match and promising not to throw hooks.''
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