The nuclear weapons race is heating up. Is another bomb needed to renew the disarmament?
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Eighty years after the first atomic bomb fell, experts and survivors warn that the terror in Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be released again as the nuclear weapons race heats up.
“Most experts believe that the risk of nuclear use is rising, and in some cases it will rise dramatically,” said Joseph Cirincione, a national security analyst who has been engaged in nuclear non-proliferation for decades.
“The drivers of the drive weapons race we saw in the 1950s and 1960s are now re-establishing themselves … and we don’t have the public pressure to fight back against them,” he told him. Sunday Magazine.
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Cirincione said that all nine countries with nuclear weapons – the United States, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – are currently adding or modernizing their arsenals or delivery systems. He added that France is considering Extend its nuclear umbrella to other EU countriesincreasing the scope of deterrence, but there are also potential conflicts. Countries like South Korea are considering Build your own weapon for the first timeworry that they no longer rely on the United States for protection.
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All of this comes after “40 years of reduction in nuclear arsenal,” Cirincione said, adding that it has been under “public pressure to move politicians in the right direction.”
He said he believes that public pressure is absent today because people take the trend of disarmament for granted and have begun to focus on other pressing issues, such as climate change.
He said there is now a pessimistic feeling among some experts and campaigners that renewing the drive for disarmament may need to be unimaginable.
“This view is basically what we may need to see a nuclear explosion until the public reminds of the threat and mobilizes the motivation,” he said.
“Some people are worried that we might need to go through the horror of seeing them being used.”
After 75 years since the U.S. abandoned its nuclear bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, the remaining survivors talk less about their experiences, but the new generation has found a way to keep these memories alive.
“My beloved city has just become flat”
Thurlow, a 13-year-old, a Japanese Canadian, lived in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the United States detonated an atomic bomb in a quarter of the people living there.
She said she remembered the blind light and then felt herself floating. Everything around her was rubble and flame as she climbed out from under the collapsed building.
“My beloved city just flattened and burned with a bomb. And 351 classmates, they were all burned to death and were still alive,” she said.
She remembered that her four-year-old nephew “turned into a piece of melted meat.”
Three days later, the second nuclear bomb was detonated in Nagasaki, Japan. In the following years, the two explosions combined resulted in about 120,000 people in height and tens of thousands. Japan’s surrender was announced on August 15, ending World War II.
Survivors of the world’s first nuclear attack described a horrifying day, 80 years ago (August 6, 1945) atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people.
Thurlow, 93, married a Canadian in 1950 and now lives in Toronto. She has been a campaigner against nuclear weapons for decades The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2017 She works in an international campaign to cancel nuclear weapons.
Author and journalist Garrett Graff said the 80th anniversary of this year is “especially outrageous” for many, as there are few survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“I think we have to stick to their vision and dreams to make sure … it’s still the last and only time we have used nuclear weapons,” Graff said. The Devil Stretches to the Sky: Oral History of Making and Releasing the Atomic Bomb.
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Thurlow Polls show that most Canadians want to eliminate nuclear weapons.
“I am very worried that the government has not responded to the will of the people,” she said.
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Cirincione said in the 1980s that thousands of people from all over the world participated Demonstrations against nuclear weapons. He said he believed that if disarmament could be merged with other actions, disarmament could be restored.
“You want to increase health care, you want to increase education? Where will you get money?” he said.
The answer, he said, may lie in the global high spending on nuclear weapons, “this can provide a lot of money for the human needs you need rather than human destruction.”
