Survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have strongly welcomed Friday's adoption of a treaty banning nuclear weapons after months of negations at the United Nations, while some criticized Japan for not joining the initiative."I have been waiting for this day for seven decades and I am overjoyed that it has finally arrived," Setsuko Thurlow, 85, said during the conference in New York where the legally binding pact outlawing nuclear weapons was agreed. "This is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons."Thurlow was 13 years old when she witnessed the first bomb d…READ FULL ARTICLE
