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Building a peaceful, nuclear-free tomorrow
Overcoming US global dominance is key: the Star publishes a speech from SOPHIE BOLT, from Saturday’s CND World We Want conference
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SO, the world we want to see! For the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, we want a peaceful, just, sustainable and nuclear-free world. But, given where we currently are, how can we secure such a world?
From CND’s perspective, central to this question is overcoming the major obstacle — which is US global dominance.
Since the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the US has pursued a military doctrine that allows no rival economic or military power to emerge that can challenge it.
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