Message from the Chairman
It has been 11 years since the Nagasaki Prefecture,Nagasaki
City and Nagasaki University joined together to found the PCU
Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (PCU-NC) inOctober 2012.
During that time, PCU-NC has held special public seminars that
promote exchange between citizens in Nagasaki and nuclear
disarmament experts from around the world, organized “Toward aworld without nuclear weapons” public lectures, sent the Nagasaki Youth Delegation to international conferences for humanresources development, and created and distributed posters andguide of world's nuclear warheads and ﬁssile materials to thepublic in Nagasaki City and around the prefecture to disseminate
information about nuclear weapons.
In FY2022, we held a Special Lecture Series in Commemorationof the 10th Anniversary of RECNA and PCU-NC, welcoming
H.E.Ms. Shorna-Kay M. Richards, Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of Jamaica to Japan for the ﬁrst session and Mr.
Keiichiro Hirano, an Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist for thesecond session. We also held the second and third Special PublicSeminars under the title of 10th Anniversary Special Seminar.
From Nagasaki, the site of the atomic bombing, we must nurtureof the next generation to carry on this plea for the abolition ofnuclear weapons. PCU-NC is now in its 11th year. We continue towork together with the Nagasaki University, Nagasaki Prefecture, and Nagasaki City to listen to the many voices from diﬀerent
regions and communicate their
passion for a future free of nuclear
weapons from this site to the entire
world.

Susumu Shirabe
April 1, 2023
Chairman of PCU-NC

Executive・Board
Executive
ChairmanPresident, Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace

Vice Chairman

Policy Director-General, Culture, Tourism and InternationalAﬀairs Department, Nagasaki Prefectural Government
Director, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki City

Vice Chairman

Director Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for theAtomic Bomb Victims

Auditor

Board
Managing Director

Professor, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition,
Nagasaki University (RECNA)

Deputy Managing Director

Planning Director-General, International Aﬀairs Division,Culture, Tourism and International Aﬀairs Department,
Nagasaki Prefectural Government

Deputy Managing Director

Chief, Peace Promotion Section, Atomic Bomb Survivors Department,
Nagasaki City

Deputy Managing DirectorAdministration Oﬃce Head, RECNA

MemberProfessor, RECNA〃

Associate Professor, RECNA〃Professor, School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences,Nagasaki University〃

Director of Administration, Nagasaki Foundation for
Promotion of Peace

Adviser

Adviser

Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture〃Mayor of Nagasaki City〃

President of Nagasaki University

ACCESS
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Bunkyo Campus
East Gate

PCU-NC

Main Gate
Nagasaki University
Sakamoto Campus
Yamazato
Junior High School
Nagasaki
UniversityUrakami
Hospital
Cathedral

Chodai
Higashimon-MaeBus Stop

Atomic Bomb Museum

Atomic Bomb
Chitosepia Nagasaki
Peace Park Museum
UrakamiUniversity
Tram Depot
Showamachi
PeacePark-Dori
ChitoseOhashi
Machi
UniversitySumiyoshi
Hospital
WakabaIwayabashi
Machi
Matsuyama
Peace Park Athletic
NagasakiAkasakoNagasaki PrefecturalUniversity
Baseball Stadium
Shiroyama
Elementary School
JR Nishiurakami Sta.

PCU-Nagasaki Council (PCU-NC) Secretariat
c/o Research Center for the Nuclear Weapons Abolition,Nagasaki University (RECNA)
1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki City, 852-8521 Japan
Te l: +81-95-819-2252
Fax: +81-95-819-2165

URL:https://www.pcu-nc.jp/en/■From JR Nagasaki Station (from the platform for Akasako), take thetram bound for Akasako (blue line 1 or red line 3) and get oﬀ atNagasaki University (No. 15).
■From Nagasaki Airport take the Ken-ei bus from platform 4 bound forNagasaki via Showa-Machi/Urakami and get oﬀ at Nagasaki
Daigaku-mae.

Main activities
Public lectures on the abolition of
nuclear weapons
Public lecture: Toward a world without
nuclear weapons

PCU-NC invites research staﬀ from the Research Centerfor Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University(RECNA) and experts on nuclear weapons abolition, andholds public lectures. There are ﬁve lectures in total, all ofwhich are live-streamed.
In each of the lectures, diﬀerent experts speak to thepublic in an easy-to-understand manner about achieving
a world without nuclear weapons.

What is the PCU Nagasaki
Council for Nuclear WeaponsAbolition（PCU-NC）?
To reﬂect the wishes of citizens living in Nagasaki Prefecture
and Nagasaki City that Nagasaki should be the last city inhuman history to have been subjected to a nuclear attack,Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki City, and Nagasaki University
united to build a framework to tackle the abolition of nuclearweapons, and founded PCU Nagasaki Council for Nuclear
Weapons Abolition (PCU-NC) on October 4, 2012.
In addition to the regular members of Nagasaki Prefecture,Nagasaki City, and Nagasaki University, Nagasaki Foundation
for the Promotion of Peace and the Nagasaki National Peace
Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims also participate as
special members.
N.B.: PCU in the name of the Council stands for the cooperation between the Prefecture, City, and University.

Special public seminars

PCU-NC invites experts on nuclear weapons abolition,
disarmament, and non-proliferation, and holds “specialpublic seminars” for the public several times a year.

Global network support

PCU-NC supports the creation of a global network byproviding a forum between the public and students andthe members of an expert panel on global nuclear
disarmament and non-proliferation held in Nagasaki
Prefecture, and the construction of the “Nagasaki
Process” which aims to realize a Northeast Asia Nuclear
Weapon-Free Zone (NEA-NWFZ).

（Nagasaki University）（Nagasaki City）（Nagasaki Prefecture）

NagasakiFoundation forthe Promotionof Peace

RECNA

Nagasaki NationalPeace Memorial
Hall for the Atomic
Bomb VictimsTHEY EXIST,SO THEY CAN BE USEDThe World's Nuclear Warheads Count June 2023
Russia 5,890

×5Warheads available for deployment 4,490
Retired or to be dismantled………… 1,400

Carrried by Deployed Carried by Retired orland-based at sea
aircraftto bemissiles including
dismantled,including
SLBM
etc.
ICBM

Warheads availablefor deployment

Total inventories appear to havedeclined, those for deployable *are increasing.

Secretariat : Within RECNA
Funding : Contributions from Nagasaki
Prefecture, Nagasaki City, and Nagasaki
UniversityUK

Israel
90

India

164

DPRK40225

France290

China

Pakistan

410

170

Warheads available for deployment

9251
1105

9587

1389
Total of other 7 countries
U.S.-Russia total

8146

8198

20182023

RussiaUS
China
FranceUK
Pakistan
India
IsraelDPRKTotal

144
92
170
01030
39
1025

336

US 5,244

Warheads available for deployment 3,708
Retired or to be dismantled………… 1,536

12,520Total (Decrease from 2022:200)

Increase/decreaseby each country (2018-23)

TheDoomsdayClock（see the center）

For more information

The Doomsday Clock is asymbol of the threat ofnuclear annihilation. On theclock, midnight is the time of
total destruction of humanity,
and the minutes to midnightillustrate how close we areto such a "doomsday."Currently it is "90 seconds
to midnight"
Source：Bulletin of theAtomicScientists※Nuclear warheads excluding those retired or to be dismantled

PCU Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (PCU-NC)／Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA)
Created by ： RECNA Nuclear Warheads Data Monitoring TeamFor more information, please visit ： https://www.recna.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/recna/en-top

Numbers are rounded.

Nagasaki Youth Delegation
As a human resource development project for the young
people who will lead the next generation the PCU-NC has
dispatched college-age people, selected from all over
Nagasaki Prefecture, to various international meetings,
including the NPT Review Conference in New York.
Since 2013, by the 11th intake of students a total of 94
people had participated in this program, learning thelatest about nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
diplomacy and extending their networks with people
around the world. After returning from abroad, delegates
often give visiting lectures at elementary, junior and highschools all over Japan to pass on to the younger generation what they have learned through this program.
We have continued to write the activity
report every year and have reached the10th volume!
Please visit the website for more details.
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