Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors to visit India

HIROSHIMA, May 18 Kyodo - An antinuclear organization in Hiroshima has decided to send a group of atomic bomb survivors to India to support local peace groups opposed to the country's nuclear testing, organization officials said Monday. Hiroshima Gensuikin (Hiroshima Council Against A and H Bombs) will send two or three survivors as representatives in early June to call on the Indian government to change its nuclear policy, the officials said. The representatives will stay for about a week in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) to protest the nuclear testing to government officials and members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. They will also gather information on the local response to antinuclear exhibitions that were jointly sponsored by Indian antinuclear groups and the two western Japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibitions were held in Mumbai from January to February and in New Delhi from April to early May. During World War II in 1945, U.S. atomic bomb attacks killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 people in Nagasaki.