Hiroshima, Nagasaki protest US nuke test

Japanese officials from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world's only cities to have been hit by atomic bombs, expressed their outrage and regret yesterday at a US nuclear test conducted last month.
The US government said on Tuesday that it had carried out a subcritical nuclear test, which does not entail a chain reaction for a nuclear explosion, at a Nevada underground test site in September.
"I am outraged by your trampling on the expectations and hopes of the A-bomb survivors and the vast majority of the Earth's inhabitants," Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said in a protest letter sent to the US embassy in Japan.