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A day to recommit to a world without nuclear weapons
On the 73rd anniversary of the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, KATE HUDSON looks at how Trump’s volatile and increasingly militaristic presidency is making nuclear war more likely
Firestorm cloud over Hiroshima

AS we remember the terrible events that took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 73 years ago, we cannot avoid the awful realisation that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the height of the cold war. 

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight, the closest they’ve been since the 1950s. To understand much of the reason we need look no further than the US White House.

Already this year we’ve heard the media talk of the possibility of World War III. As we pull back from the nuclear brink one week, we veer closer to it the next. 

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