According to a recent Asahi newspaper survey of 768 survivors, nearly two-thirds said their wish was a nuclear-free world is not widely shared by the rest of humanity, and more than 70% called on a reluctant Japanese government to ratify a nuclear weapons ban treaty.
"We must work harder to get our voices heard, not just mine but those of many other survivors," Lee said in an interview at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. "A nuclear weapons ban is the starting point for peace."
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The first U.S. atomic bombing killed 140,000 people in the city of Hiroshima. A second atomic attack on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killed another 70,000. Japan, as a result, surrendered August 15, bringing to an end a conflict with the United States that began with its attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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