Ex-ICJ head views nuclear arms as "devil's work"

Mohammed Bedjaoui of Algeria, former president of the International Court of Justice, says nuclear weapons are the work of the devil in his keynote address at the International Symposium for Peace, titled "The Road to Nuclear Abolition," in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 25, 2015. The year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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