Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
‘The vision of peace will always be stronger than the voices of war’
The Morning Star prints former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's speech to the National Eisteddfod on Hiroshima Day 2022
A visitor prays in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the US's atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Saturday, August 6, 2022

MY THANKS to CND Cymru for inviting me to this special anniversary event of the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The hundreds of thousands who died then were followed by many more deaths from nuclear fallout and cancers in the decades that followed. 

As the nuclear arms race accelerated with the Soviet Union, Britain, France and later China acquiring their own nuclear weapons, testing followed.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Related articles
Features / 7 August 2022
7 August 2022
Arith Jeremy Corbyn as yn llawn, ar Ddiwrnod Coffhau Hiroshima