Nagasaki Univ.'s nuke abolition research center gets new head

Tatsujiro Suzuki meets the press on March 3, 2015, after his appointment as the new director of Nagasaki University's Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, effective April 1, to succeed Hiromichi Umebayashi. The center, established in 2012, is the only university research institute in Japan that specializes in nuclear weapons issues. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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