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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.
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