Hiroshima A-bomb survivor calls for abolition of 'devil's weapons' at U.N. ⁠100%

By JIJI⁠0%

5/2/2026, 6:37:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 67.2% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 565 faulty-reasoning hits from 116 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠100% (41 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.80% of the article peer group.

New York – Jiro Hamasumi, secretary-general of Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the United Nations on Friday, saying the bombs are "weapons of the devil that cannot coexist with humanity." 
Hamasumi, 80, is a member of Nihon Hidankyo, also known as the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. 
He was exposed to the atomic bomb that hit the city of Hiroshima while still in his mother's womb. 
"No more war, no more hibakusha," he cited a phrase from the landmark speech by then-Hidankyo official Senji Yamaguchi at the 1982 U.N. special session on disarmament. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.2%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.5%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 16.4%JIJI: 2.6%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic16.4%This article: 16.4%JIJI: 1.6%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic16.4%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 67.2%JIJI: 8.2%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect67.2%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.7%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 4.4%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 34.5%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias34.5%This article: 60.3%JIJI: 5.0%The Japan Times: 11.6%Negativity Bias60.3%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.8%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 23.3%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect23.3%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 39.7%JIJI: 5.7%The Japan Times: 5.5%Appeal to Authority39.7%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.9%The Japan Times: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.4%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 67.2%JIJI: 4.0%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion67.2%This article: 34.5%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question34.5%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.9%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 16.4%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 1.1%Anecdotal16.4%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 32.8%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.6%Unattributed Quote32.8%This article: 9.5%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection9.5%This article: 34.5%JIJI: 4.7%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice34.5%This article: 34.5%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination34.5%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

116 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers91%attributed speech11writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageJiro Hamasumi • 40 words • 100.0% coverageJiro Hamasumi • 19 words • 0.0% coverageJiro Hamasumi • 19 words • 0.0% coverageSenji Yamaguchi • 27 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Senji Yamaguchi

100%flagged-word coverage
27 attributed words26% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Senji Yamaguchi: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+0.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Senji Yamaguchi: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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