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Hiroshima remains a stark warning in an age of nuclear brinkmanship
As tensions rise in Ukraine and Gaza, KATE HUDSON argues that Western militarisation and Nato expansion bring us closer to nuclear catastrophe — we must heed the lessons of history
The complete destruction brought about by the atomic bomb on August 6 1945 at exactly 8.15 am. The building still somewhat standing is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, one of the very few structures that weren't completely obliterated
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The protests against the US presidential visit are over, but the public probably doesn’t know that new US nuclear bombs are now stationed here, putting us all in danger — we have to raise awareness and get them out, writes CND’s KATE HUDSON
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
JOHN PERRY and FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ unpack the latest propaganda attack on Nicaragua, explaining how a clearly biased, US-backed regime-change NGO used a totally unrepresentative sample and survey methodology to get a ridiculous result
IT IS 79 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those war crimes, perpetrated by the US, will never be forgotten; we honour the memory of all the lives tragically cut short, and we pay tribute to the Hibaksha — the survivors — and their work for a nuclear weapons-free world. In their name, we recommit today to achieving the global abolition of nuclear weapons.
And never has this work been more important. We cannot allow the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be repeated, yet we seem to be heading inexorably in that direction. There are two major conflicts ongoing which raise the risk of nuclear war or nuclear use.
First, in Ukraine, where the possibility of a conflict between Russia and Nato increases almost daily; more nuclear weapons are being stationed in Europe, with US nuclear weapons scheduled to return to Britain in the near future, and Russian nuclear weapons are now stationed in Belarus as a result.
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