China News Service, March 8 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) - "It is long overdue to let the US nuclear weapons go home and completely destroy the relevant infrastructure in Europe."

"Even in peacetime, Japan will never allow the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons on its own territory."

　　One is Russia and the other is Japan, two countries with huge differences on many issues, why have they "say no to the United States" one after another recently?

　　Not only that, Russian President Vladimir Putin is deeply concerned that Ukraine is developing nuclear weapons again.

He believes that once Ukraine has nuclear weapons, it will change the whole world...

Data map: The USS Indianapolis cruiser allegedly secretly transported parts of the atomic bomb.

[Let the U.S. nuclear weapons "go home"]

　　“The United States is already standing on our doorstep with missiles. Is it too much to ask not to have a strike system on our doorstep?”

　　"If missiles are deployed to the border of the United States, Canada or Mexico, how will the Americans react?" Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the world at a large press conference in 2021.

　　After the military operation in Ukraine, Russia was severely sanctioned by the United States and the West.

On February 27, Putin ordered the Russian deterrent force to enter a state of "special combat readiness".

　　Putin pointed out that this was because of "the West's unfriendly measures in the economic field, and the aggressive comments of senior NATO officials".

Data map: Putin took an autonomous submersible and went into the water to view the Soviet submarine that was sunk during World War II.

　　Analysts such as the BBC said that this move was more of a verbal warning, not necessarily a declaration of action. Putin's nuclear deterrence actually means that he is unwilling to use nuclear forces.

　　"It's time to let America's nuclear weapons go home." Recently, at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out that it is unacceptable for the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in Europe.

He criticized the United States for violating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, deploying nuclear weapons in Europe as before, and formulating plans to use nuclear weapons against Russia.

　　Russia has long since withdrawn its nuclear weapons to its own country, but it is the United States that "relies on nuclear weapons to order princes" to tie Europe to a nuclear chariot and gradually approach Russia, causing Russia's lack of security and triggering a strong backlash.

[Ukraine or "regain nuclear weapons"?

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　　NATO currently has nuclear weapons in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands.

In 2020, it was reported that the United States intends to transfer tactical nuclear weapons deployed at German military bases to Poland, and Russia is greatly vigilant.

At the end of 2021, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg reiterated this trend.

　　Earlier, at the Munich Security Conference, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that Ukraine might re-develop nuclear weapons, which made Russia even more worried.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova believes that this "fundamentally reversed the situation."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

　　In 1994, Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom signed the "Budapest Security Memorandum" in Hungary on Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Ukraine cleared its own nuclear arsenal in exchange for security and economic assistance from the United States, Britain and Russia.

　　At that time, it had the largest nuclear military strength in post-Soviet countries after Russia.

　　Today, history has brought into reality, Russia and Ukraine have not only failed to usher in security and stability, but instead have become the "tinderbox" of conflict under the siege of NATO step by step.

　　Putin warned that Ukraine has nuclear technology and delivery vehicles, and Western help, the development of nuclear weapons is not a bluff.

He has repeatedly stressed that Ukraine must be "demilitarized", otherwise Ukrainian nationalists will change Russia, Europe and "the whole world" once they acquire nuclear weapons.

　　There is more evidence for this view.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov admitted on the 5th that Kyiv has the technical capability to develop nuclear weapons.

The source pointed out that special attention should be paid to the use of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area as a platform for the development of nuclear weapons, where the Ukrainian side "may have carried out the manufacture of 'dirty bombs' and the separation of plutonium".

[The Japanese government refuses to "share nuclear weapons"]

　　In the eyes of some Japanese politicians, the situation in Ukraine is a signal.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed to discuss whether Japan can follow the NATO mechanism and share nuclear weapons with the United States.

　　Abe's remarks on the brink of danger prompted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi to rush out to put out the fire.

　　Kishida said that the Japanese government will adhere to the "three non-nuclear principles" and will not share nuclear weapons with the United States if it does not possess, manufacture or import nuclear weapons.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

　　"Even in peacetime, Japan will never allow the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons on its own territory," Nobuo Kishi also pointed out.

　　Unlike Abe who is in the opposition, Kishida and others obviously cannot ignore the opinions of the Japanese public.

　　In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which still shocked Japanese society after more than half a century.

　　The BBC described the scene of the nuclear explosion as follows - after a blinding flash, a huge fireball and shock wave erupted, which could destroy buildings and objects within a few kilometers, and almost no one could survive in the core area.

Data map: Ruins of Hiroshima, Japan.

　　The US atomic bomb that killed 146,000 people in Hiroshima released an energy equivalent to about 15,000 tons of TNT high explosive.

　　In addition, the Fukushima nuclear leakage accident and the frequent incidents of the U.S. military stationed in Japan have continued to cause trauma to Japanese society for many years.

Although the Japanese government has followed the American baton on many issues, it has always been difficult to let go of this matter.

[They are all "nuclearly attacked"]

　　In the long history of developing nuclear weapons, the United States has used the Marshall Islands and aboriginal settlements as test sites, and conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests. The damage to local residents and the ecological environment is incalculable.

　　The Marshall Islands, isolated on the Pacific Ocean, more than 5,000 kilometers away from the United States, have endured at least 67 nuclear weapons tests.

File:Marshall Islands.

　　A 2019 study showed that some uninhabited islands in the Marshall Islands have radiation levels 10 to 1,000 times higher than those in Fukushima and 10 times higher than those in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

A tropical paradise with beautiful scenery has become a "hell" with alarming pollution.

Data map: View of the Marshall Islands.

　　928 nuclear tests, 620,000 tons of radioactive fallout, and over 40 years, the U.S. government has caused "devastating" damage to the settlements of the American Indian Shoshone tribe.

Local residents protested that the government's actions amounted to "ethnic cleansing".

　　The Navajo Nation Reservation, the largest Indian tribe in the United States, was deceived and forced by the US government to become a "garbage dump" for dumping nuclear waste. About 1/4 of the tribe's women and some babies contained high concentrations of radioactive substances, causing community cancer Incidence and fatality rates are significantly higher than other regions.

Data map: Indian bronze sculpture.

　　Not only that, as the only country among the five nuclear-weapon states that refuses to ratify the protocol of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, the United States also formed a trilateral security alliance agreement AUKUS in 2021 to help Australia build nuclear submarines with the United Kingdom.

　　Solomon Islands, Samoa, Kiribati and others have expressed concern about AUKUS.

These Pacific island countries firmly support the denuclearization of the region, do not support any nuclear test or dumping of nuclear materials in the Pacific Ocean, nor do they want the history of nuclear pollution to repeat itself.

【Intensifying the Arms Race and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation】

　　By forming small circles, the United States, Britain and Australia have not only intensified the nuclear arms race and the risk of nuclear proliferation, but also trampled on the rights and interests of regional countries.

ASEAN countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia have expressed concern.

　　Even though the country already has one of the largest and most advanced nuclear arsenals in the world, the U.S. government has invested heavily in recent years to continue modernizing its nuclear weapons and developing small nuclear weapons.

The United States has intensively tested missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Image source: Screenshot of CNN report.

　　The United States not only withdrew from the ABM Treaty and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty aimed at limiting and destroying intermediate-range missiles, but also planned to withdraw from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

In 2020, senior Pentagon officials also said that the United States would be ready for a nuclear test "within a few months."

　　In 2021, nearly 700 scientists and engineers will send a letter to US President Biden, calling on the US to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and announce a no-first-use policy.

　　The Biden administration has engaged in a more "double reed" debate around not being the first to use nuclear weapons.

Japan, Britain, Australia and other countries have lobbied the United States not to change its policy, but the main reason is that they are worried that the United States' "nuclear umbrella" will fail.

　　However, the "nuclear umbrella" erected by the United States cannot cover up the Shoshone aboriginal tribe "the most atomically bombed on this planet", nor can it cover the arrival of the moment of truth.

　　And Russia believes that one of the reasons why it is operating in Ukraine is to ensure that Ukraine does not re-engage in the "dangerous nuclear game".

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