Nearly eight decades after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 85-year-old Keiko Ogura had this message for Vladimir Putin: 'You don't know what is a nuclear weapon, the reality of a nuclear weapon. So come here and see.'
Keiko Ogura, 85, is shown during an interview with ABC News' Britt Clennett in Hiroshima, Japan.Nearly eight decades after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 85-year-old Keiko Ogura had this message for Russian President Vladimir Putin: "You don't know what is a nuclear weapon, the reality of a nuclear weapon. So come here and see."
"Threats by Russia of nuclear weapon use, let alone any use of nuclear weapons by Russia, in the context of its aggression against Ukraine are inadmissible," Biden and the other G7 leaders said Friday in a joint statement, calling for "a world without nuclear weapons." Ogura met with G7 leaders on Friday during their visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, according to Japan's foreign ministry. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave the G7 leaders a private tour of the museum., Kishida later told reporters: "We felt the reality of the atomic bombing and shared a sobering moment that will be etched in our hearts. It was historic from the viewpoint of showing our resolve for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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