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Despite recent nuclear proliferation, optimism is rising
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CCPA Monitor
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July 1, 2008
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HOW TO BAN NUKES AND SAVE THE PLANET:
"When the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, I was 14. Now I'm 77-a lucky number in Japan."
It's Easter Monday and I'm listening to Yushio Sato's story in the cold drizzle outside Britain's Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment.
"My mother and sister died in the months following the blast," Sato tells the crowd."My brother and I survived-but we have had many diseases. Twenty-six years later, I had an operation to remove a cancerous growth in my stomach. My brother died of liver cancer. Now I am the only survivor of the Hiroshima bomb in my family."
About 5,000 of us have gathered at Britain's nuclear factory to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ...