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Nuclear weapons about values, says pastor who survived Hiroshima

TOKYO (ENI) — A Japanese pastor who became a Christian after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima says his decades-long pursuit of peace has involved a resistance to "nuclear weapons in the human mind."

 
          In his autobiography published in May, the 82-year-old pastor, Shouzo Munetou, of the United Church of Christ in Japan, writes that nuclear weapons are "a symbol of the devil that was produced by egoism, greed, pride, conceit, enmity, hatred."

          Munetou contracted leukemia after being affected by radiation from the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 in the closing days of the Second...

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