Japanese atomic bomb survivors fear war as U.S.-Russia pact expires

Japanese atomic bomb survivors said Thursday that they feared the world was marching toward nuclear war as the last U.S.-Russian arms control treaty expired.

The New START treaty ended with the turn of the calendar to Feb. 5, after U.S. President Donald Trump did not follow up on Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s proposal to extend warhead limits in the agreement for one year.

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the 1945 U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said the world has failed to see the urgency of the issue.