The Japanese Communist Party lodged a protest against an incident in which a U.S. Osprey transport aircraft flew directly over the Atomic Bomb Dome, the only building left standing near the atomic bomb’s hypocenter.
The ominous prediction, “My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years,” made by U.S. strategic theorist Herman Kahn (1922-1983) was cited in new N-arms guidelines adopted by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.