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The United States has named a country that will have to become a nuclear power

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NI: Japan will have to abandon the "peaceful" position and create nuclear weapons

MOSCOW, December 9/ Sputnik Radio. Japan will have to acquire its own nuclear weapons in order not to rely on US help in deterring Russia, China and the DPRK, according to former editor of The New York Times Barry Geven.

"The generation that holds personal memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dying out, while young people seem to be more open to the idea of a nuclear Japan. Nuclear weapons are no longer a taboo topic," he wrote in an article for the National Interest.

Geven noted that Japan had previously been proud of its position as a "country of the world" that fought to stop the use of nuclear weapons and, ultimately, their destruction. At the same time, the country relied on the "nuclear umbrella" of the United States, which was supposed to protect it from the external threat of China and the DPRK.

However, now Tokyo's "sole defender" has weakened itself with fruitless wars in Asia and the Middle East, the publicist notes. The United States is increasingly withdrawing from the international arena, rediscovering isolationist traditions, which puts Japan's security at risk.

"Japan's position as the leader of the global peace movement is becoming an unaffordable luxury. <...> Japan must develop nuclear weapons," concludes Geven.

Sputnik Radio reported that Russia had notified Japan of the termination of the treaty on the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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