“Let’s make efforts to ensure this never happens again” – Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the second former nuclear-powered British prime minister to visit since the summit | IRAW by RCC

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2024.08.31 09:00

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss visited the Peace Memorial Park on the 28th, becoming the second former British prime minister to visit the park.

Truss will become the UK Prime Minister in September 2022. Although her term in office was short, at just 49 days, she is only the second former prime minister of the UK, a nuclear power, to visit the Peace Park, following then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who visited for the first time as the incumbent at the G7 Summit last year.

Mr Truss was on a private visit to Japan with his family and visited Hiroshima for the first time at his own request.

After touring the exhibits at the Atomic Bomb Museum for around an hour, Truss responded to a journalist’s question by saying, “Nuclear deterrence is necessary to protect freedom and democracy from the rise of authoritarian regimes.” She added, “As Hiroshima shows, it is clear that the use of nuclear weapons would create terrible devastation. We must make efforts to ensure that this never happens again.”