The race for nuclear weapons is heating up. Will it take another bomb to renew push for disarmament?
Sunday magazineWhat is the lesson of Japan’s atomic bombing for today’s atomic world
Eighty years after the first atomic bomb falls, experts and survivors warned that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be achieved once again, as the nuclear weapon race heats up.
“Most experts believe that the risk of nuclear use is increasing, and in some cases dramatically increasing,” said Joseph Sirinsian, a national security analyst, who has worked on the atomic non-compassion for decades.
He said, “The same driver who we saw in the 50s and 60s, who had given air to the weapons, are now re -establishing ourselves … and we do not have public pressure to compete them,” he said. Sunday magazine,
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Cirincione said that all nine nations with nuclear weapons – America, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – are currently increasing their arsenal or distribution systems or modernizing. He said that France is considering Extension of its nuclear umbrella on other European Union countriesIncrease in the scope of preventive but also possible conflict. And countries like South Korea are considering Create your weapons for the first timeFear that they can no longer trust America for security.
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All this “comes after a good 40 -year cut in the nuclear arsenal,” Cirincione said, saying that it always “takes public pressure to move politicians in the right direction.”
He says that he thinks that public pressure is absent today as people allowed trend towards disarmament and started focusing on other pressure issues such as climate change.
He said that among some experts and campaigners, now there is a feeling of pessimism that it can be unimaginable to renew the disarmament push.
He said, “This scene may basically need to see a nuclear explosion, before the public is alerted to the threat and motivated to gather,” he said.
“There is some fear that we may need to go through the terror of using them.”
After seventy -five years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, there are less to talk about their experience, but a new generation has discovered a way to keep those memories alive.
‘My favorite city is just flattened’
Japanese Canadian Setasuko Thurlo was 13 years old and living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the US exploded an atomic bomb in the quarter of one million people living there.
She says that she remembers a blind flash of light, and then it felt as if she was swimming. When she used to crawl from under a collapsing building, everything around her was debris and flame.
“My favorite city just flattened and burned with a bomb. And 351 schoolmates, they were all burnt, alive,” he said.
She recalls her four -year -old nephew “turned into a melted part of the meat.”
Three days later, a second atomic bomb was exploded over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The two explosions jointly killed around 120,000 people immediately and in the following years tens of thousands. Japan’s surrender was announced on 15 August, ending the Second World War.
A survivor of the world’s first nuclear attack described 80 years ago – August 6, 1945 – when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, who killed the estimated 140,000 people.
Thurlo, who is 93 years old, married a Canadian in 1950 and now lives in Toronto. He has worked as a pracharak against nuclear weapons for decades and was Nobelly awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 For their work with international campaigns to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Writer and journalist Garat Graff said that the 80th anniversary of this year is “particularly poignant” for many people, as some survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain.
“I think it’s up to us that we pursue their vision and pursue the dream of ensuring that it is the author of the last and only time we use nuclear weapons,” the author said. Satan reached the sky: an oral history of making and making atomic bombs.
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Thurlo shared the concern that another nuclear strike could be “closer and close”, and says that Canada is not enough to push back on the nuclear spread, despite Polls show that most Canadians want nuclear weapons to end,
He said, “I am serious that the government is not responding to the wishes of the people,” she said that she wants to get Canada to get her honor and prestige as a peace builder. “
Sunday magazine The Canadian Atomic Safety Commission contacted what Canada was doing about the global spread of nuclear weapons, but was referred to to Canada on global affairs. GAC did not respond to a time limit request.
Cirincione said in the 1980s, millions of people around the world participated Demonstration against nuclear weaponsHe says that he feels that push for disarmament can be revived if it can be merged with other movements for change.
“You want to increase health care, you want to increase education? Where are you going to get money from?” He said.
Can lie in response High global expenses on nuclear weaponsHe said, “It can provide a great source of money required for human needs, not human destruction.”
