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1. It Is Time to Close and Lock the Door on Nuclear Testing

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... postwar use of nuclear weapons: At least eight countries have conducted 2,056 nuclear test explosions, most of which were far larger than the bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States ...

Created on 02 September 2019

2. The Devastating Arms Race Rages Unabated

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... over.   The world knows the inhumanely destructive power of nuclear weapons that the U.S. unleashed on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, and from the devastation caused ...

Created on 10 August 2019

3. The Devastating Arms Race Rages Unabated

(Project Articles)

... times over.   The world knows the inhumanely destructive power of nuclear weapons that the U.S. unleashed on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, and from the devastation caused ...

Created on 10 August 2019

4. Australia Urged to Sign & Ratify the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... anniversary of the United States detonating the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) in Japan. Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) president and ICAN ...

Created on 07 August 2019

5. Australia Urged to Sign & Ratify the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

(Project Articles)

... anniversary of the United States detonating the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) in Japan. Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) president and ICAN ...

Created on 07 August 2019

6. Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US-Russia Relations and Finally Ban the Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... member of CODEPINK. NEW YORK (IDN) – August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 ...

Created on 06 August 2019

7. CEND Is Creating the Conditions to ‘Never Disarm’ – 74 Years Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

...  VIENNA (IDN) – With August 6 and 9 respectively marking the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no sentient human being who has met or seen the hibakusha (survivors), ...

Created on 05 August 2019

8. Nuclear Disarmament Through the Vortex of Global Concern

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of nuclear weapons, as is well known, has been out there since the Hiroshima Nagasaki attacks in 1945. The years that followed brought out, through an evolutionary dialectic, a few concepts and doctrines ...

Created on 04 August 2019

9. ICAN Slates Sweden’s Decision Not to Sign Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... she added. Setsuko Thurlow, ICAN activist and survivor of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, said she was “truly disappointed … and deeply disheartened” that the Swedish government “will, as it stands now, ...

Created on 14 July 2019

10. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference Could Hit a U.S. Roadblock

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... committee (PrepCoM) sessions, which concluded May 10, told the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the sidelines of the  PrepCom. The Trump administration’s hardline position against multilateral ...

Created on 18 May 2019

11. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference Could Hit a U.S. Roadblock

(Project Articles)

... committee (PrepCoM) sessions, which concluded May 10, told the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the sidelines of the  PrepCom. The Trump administration’s hardline position against multilateral ...

Created on 18 May 2019

12. Mayors for Peace Call for a Common Ground on the NPT

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Mayors of Hiroshima (Kazumi Matsui) and Nagasaki (Tomihisa Taue) – the only two cities in the world that suffered atomic bombings – issued a joint appeal on behalf of the Mayors for Peace in their capacities ...

Created on 13 May 2019

13. Un eminente líder budista insta a detener las armas nucleares y los robots asesinos

(Spanish)

... con el 75 aniversario de los bombardeos atómicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki. El Dr. Ikeda es el Presidente de Soka Gakkai International (SGI), la organización laica budista más grande del mundo con, aproximadamente, ...

Created on 02 May 2019

14. High School Students' Conference Stimulates Youth Engagement in Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the two countries’ cooperation at a time when the relationship between these two countries is at a post-Cold War low. Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School that has been actively promoting nuclear ...

Created on 28 April 2019

15. Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by 122 states on July 7, 2017 will enter into force by August 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr. Ikeda is President of the Tokyo-based Soka Gakkai International ...

Created on 19 April 2019

16. Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots

(Project Articles)

... (TPNW), adopted by 122 states on July 7, 2017 will enter into force by August 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr. Ikeda is President of the Tokyo-based Soka ...

Created on 19 April 2019

17. African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that nuclear war between the two nations involving just 100 Hiroshima-sized weapons would cause worldwide climatic disruption and a catastrophic decline of up to 20% of rice and corn production across ...

Created on 14 April 2019

18. Not Collusion with Russia but Trump’s Confrontational Policies Threaten Peace

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki President Truman rejected advice to authorize a third, saying he didn’t want to take the lives of “all those kids”. Yet we know he considered using them if the Soviet advance ...

Created on 26 March 2019

19. Strategic Realities Impeding Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... portrayed the destruction caused by the A-bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, as well as decades of nuclear arms testing in Kazakhstan. Credit: UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras IDN is flagship ...

Created on 13 March 2019

20. Ushering in an Era of Peace and Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... shift toward nuclear disarmament". Dr. Ikeda argues that nuclear weapons have not been used in war since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the nuclear-weapon states, NATO member states ...

Created on 03 March 2019