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‘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
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STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
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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