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The nuclear weapons killed many lives in the world since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The suffering of Hibakushas continues even today. The warheads of nuclear weapons are deployed with operational forces and a part of which are on high alert, ready for use on short notice. A new world will come shortly that the nuclear weapons are prohibited legally together with the Chemical and the Biological Weapons. The nuclear deterrence doctrine depending on nuclear weapons is not the way to world peace but an inhuman policy.

We urge strongly to the non-participating governments including Japan to sign and to ratify this treaty. We continue to appeal them to step together to a world without nuclear weapons which is clear trend of the present world community.

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We, the Committee of Seven to Appeal for World Peace oppose the deployment of the low-yield nuclear warhead on the US ballistic missile nuclear submarines, because we worry about increase of the possibility of the use of nuclear weapon. We demand that the United States of America and all the other Nuclear States take the path towards the reduction and abolition of nuclear weapons.
John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the US Department of Defense issued the “Statement on the Fielding of the W76-2 Low-Yield Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Warhead” on February 4, 2020. This is realization of the policy stated in the Nuclear Posture Review 2018 of the Trump Administration. This statement corresponds with the contents in the article “US Deploys New Low-Yield Nuclear Sub marine Warhead” posted on January 29, 2020 on the website of the Federation of American Scientists.
According to this article and others the 14 Strategic Nuclear Submarines possessed by the US have each 20 Ballistic Missiles with nuclear warheads W76-1 of 90 kiloton or W88 of 455 kilotons. On the Tennessee, one of these submarines stationed in a submarine base of the Atlantic Coast one or two low-yield warheads W76-2 were installed last year. It is reported that W76-2 is a reformed model of W76-1 using only the nuclear detonator excluding the hydrogen part. The Tennessee is reported to have been deployed on an operational patrol in late 2019 and to have returned to the submarine base on January 11, 2020.
The statement of the US Department of Defense acknowledges that this supplemental capacity strengthens deterrence and provides the United States a prompt, more survivable low-yield strategic weapon; supports their commitment to extended deterrence; and demonstrates to potential adversaries that there is no advantage to limited nuclear employment because the USA can credibly and decisively respond to any threat scenario. However, the submarine invisibility is much higher than any land-based missiles and any strategic nuclear bombers, and its prompt nuclear capacity implies that it can also be used for a preemptive nuclear attack. This possibility, given past errors of judgements, and given the policy of the USA to use its nuclear weapons for the first use and even against non-nuclear attacks, this new measure clearly increases the danger of using the nuclear weaponry. Even if the power of the detonation is less than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki cases, the use of any nuclear weapon covers the whole earth with radioactive materials, and open the road to the use of higher-yield nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons are inhumane and their use as well as their threat to use should be prohibited under any circumstances. This is the opinion of the majority of the Japanese and is also the opinion of the global civil society expressed by the victims of nuclear weapons around the world and by all the nations supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We clearly remember the recent statements against nuclear weapons in Nagasaki and in Hiroshima by Pope Francis who visited Japan last year. We cannot accept the fielding of new low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile nuclear warhead on the US nuclear submarines, which is also clearly ignoring the obligation of member States in the Article 6, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons which celebrates this year its 50th anniversary.

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The United States Government announced that US killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Iraq by drone attack on January 3. Iran predicted harsh revenge. The Iraqi Prime Minister blamed it as a clear violation of its sovereignty. Will the US Government and citizens be able to accept the killing of their military Commander if the positions of US and Iran were reverced?

We, the Committee of Seven to Appeal for World Peace in Japan, condemn the killing by US and request all parties to make every effort to settle peacefully this dangerous crisis. We urge that the members of the Security Council of the United Nations should express promptly their attitudes and UN should call the Emergency General Assembly to make every effort to settle this dangerous situation peacefully by dialogue. The Japanese Government who claims friendly relation with both US and Iran should urge immediately the US the renunciation of any escalation.

The Japanese Government decided the deployment of a Naval-Self-Defense-Forces Fleet and a patrol plane in the Middle East for “Survey and Research” not including security guard fothe r passing vessels on December 27, 2019 without any explanation to the Parliament and citizen. We repeat once again our Appeal issued on December 12, 2019: the Japanese Self-Defense-Force which is a legally limited military organization should not be deployed in and around dangerous area in the Middle East; instead Japan should develop a proactive non-military peace-building initiative.

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His Holiness,

We, the Committee of Seven to Appeal for World Peace comprising scientists and artists in Japan, publish messages for world peace several times a year. The Committee was founded in 1955 by Dr. Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese winner of Nobel Prize (in Physics) and others.

We were deeply impressed by the messages that Pope Francis addressed in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in November 2019 during his visit to Japan. In sympathetic agreement to these messages, we published on November 30, 2019 our message “We fully agree to the messages by the Pope of Rome in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and hope that the messages will be broadly shared.” We would like to deliver the English version of our message with a hope that it will be read by the Pope.

The Committee includes Kinhide Mushakoji who belongs to the Catholic Church of Japan and who served as a member of the Catholic Council for Justice in Vatican in the 1970s, and Susumu Shimazono, a faculty member of Graduate School of Applied Religious Studies of Sophia University who has been cooperating to the cooperation and dialogues among religious organizations in Japan. Both Mushakoji and Shimazono are working for the “International Conference for Reconciliation and Inclusion” to be continued from 2019 to 2021 in cooperation with the Japanese Committee of the World Conference of Religions for Peace which is a world known organization of religious cooperation for peace.

We are determined to keep on our efforts so that messages for peace by Pope delivered in Japan and our messages presented so far would become the mainstream in East Asia and further to the whole world.

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