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1. Kudos for Kazakhstan's 'Leading Role' as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... so because the potential consequences of nuclear testing have been underlined by the first-hand accounts of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from survivors – the Hibakusha – highlighting the ...

Created on 07 September 2018

2. Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from survivors – the Hibakusha – have helped to cement in our minds the horrors of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare. Likewise, recognizing the impact of nuclear testing on ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... for example, as few as 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, small by modern standards, would put at least five million tons of soot into the upper atmosphere and cause climate disruption across the planet, cutting ...

Created on 30 August 2018

4. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and of Hiroshima on August 6. "Millions of people, including here in Japan, live in a shadow cast by the dread of unthinkable carnage. States in possession ...

Created on 20 August 2018

5. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and of Hiroshima on August 6. "Millions of people, including here in Japan, live in a shadow cast by the dread of unthinkable carnage. States in possession ...

Created on 20 August 2018

6. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the hibakusha, have become leaders for peace and disarmament here in Japan and around the world.  They are defined not by the cities that were destroyed, but by the peace ...

Created on 09 August 2018

7. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Izumi Nakamitsu Ms Izumi Nakamitsu is High Representative, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Following is the text of the message she delivered to the Hiroshima Peace ...

Created on 06 August 2018

8. Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and most surprisingly, Japan, the only country to have ever suffered catastrophic nuclear bombing which was wreaked upon it twice in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. in August 1945. Let us do a thought ...

Created on 08 July 2018

9. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that are at least as destructive as the atom bombs that wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since the subsequently developed hydrogen bombs in the U.S. arsenal are magnitudes more devastating and catastrophic.  ...

Created on 03 July 2018

10. What Kazakhstan's Nuclear Legacy Means For CTBTO

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Nuclear Test Site, known also as Semey polygon, in the eastern part of Kazakhstan. The energy of the tests released in turn was roughly equal to the capacity of 2,500 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The radioactive ...

Created on 31 May 2018

11. Le comunità religiose sollecitano la conferenza di Ginevra a preparare il cammino verso un mondo libero dalle armi nucleari

(Italian)

... sessant'anni. I sostenitori della dichiarazione congiunta richiamano alla mente le catastrofiche conseguenze umanitarie delle bombe atomiche su Hiroshima e Nagasaki nel 1945. "Da allora, l'umanità è ...

Created on 07 May 2018

12. Faith Communities Urge Geneva Conference to Pave the Path to a Nuclear-Weapons- Free World

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... call to minds the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "Since then, humankind has been forced to live in the shadow of apocalyptic destruction," reads ...

Created on 29 April 2018

13. Faith Communities Urge Geneva Conference to Pave the Path to a Nuclear-Weapons- Free World

(Project Articles)

... call to minds the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "Since then, humankind has been forced to live in the shadow of apocalyptic destruction," reads ...

Created on 29 April 2018

14. Strong Plea for Early Entry into Force of Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of World War II, "freedom from fear" was declared as a crucial, necessary element of our birthright as humans. Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, nuclear weapons, predicated on ...

Created on 20 April 2018

15. Pressure Mounts on Japan to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty - Norwegian

(Norwegian | Swedish)

... lidelse” på hibakusha-overlevende av den aller første atombomben i Hiroshima og Nagasaki, som ble sluppet i august 1945. 122 av FNs medlemsnasjoner adopterte det som formelt er kjent som Treaty on ...

Created on 20 April 2018

16. Pressure Mounts on Japan to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of hitherto the first ever atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. 122 member nations of the United Nations adopted what is formally known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...

Created on 16 April 2018

17. Pressure Mounts on Japan to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty

(Project Articles)

... of hitherto the first ever atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. 122 member nations of the United Nations adopted what is formally known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...

Created on 16 April 2018

18. Campaign For Moving 'Nuclear Weapons Money' to Boost Peace

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. A single nuclear warhead, if detonated on a large city, could kill millions of people, with the effects persisting for decades, according ...

Created on 13 April 2018

19. Indiens nukleare Abschreckungspolitik kommt in Fahrt

(German)

... USA Atombomben auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki abwarfen, verurteilte Mahatma Gandhi deren Einsatz als „den teuflischsten Missbrauch der Wissenschaft.” Das Engagement des unabhängigen Indiens für eine atomwaffenfreie ...

Created on 12 March 2018

20. Nuclear Deterrence Policy Gathering Steam in India - Bahasa

(Bahasa | Hindi | Malay | Thai)

... menjatuhkan bom nuklir ke Hiroshima dan Nagasaki, Mahatma Gandhi mengutuk penggunaannya sebagai “pemanfaatan sains paling kejam.” Komitmen India independen untuk dunia yang bebas senjata nuklir dipengaruhi ...

Created on 12 March 2018