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[summery]
When Russian president ordered his country's nuclear forces to be put on standby in February, it prompted fears the world was closer to nuclear war than had benn in decades. And then, a gloup of Japanese students held an online event to discuss the urgent need for the world to move toward nuclear abolition. Around 30 students from high schools and universities across Japan who was given the role of a state delegate or NGO representative, took part in the event, which was a mock conference of the parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Many students expressed their desire to abolish nuclear weapons, but one student representing China said, "China possesses nuclear weapons for self-defense, but in the current situation of the international community, nuclear weapons are used. I'm not going to abolish it. "
[reflection]
I thought it was necessary to appeal to the world about the horror of nuclear weapons because Japan is a country that has been bombed.
Apart from that, in Japan, there are few opportunities for such discussions among students, so I think that if such opportunities increase, it will become a better nation.
[vocabulary]
standby 待機する decades 数十年 Amid 真ん中 abolition廃止
survivor 生存者 constructive 建設的 mock 模擬 conference 会議
delegate 委任 representative 代表 proposals 提案 contrasting 対照的な
geopolitical 地政学的 deterrence 欲力 abolish 廃止する
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