Citizens of the world, what do you think? Are more powerful nuclear forces necessary for national security? What about arms races, competing to maintain superiority over other nations? Peace Declaration marking 79 years since the bombing of Hiroshima
The time has arrived to consider bolstering international institutions that can build a more peaceful world. The current presidential campaign provides an appropriate place for raising this issue. We have a personal stake in ensuring human survival.
Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Trinity, the first, test-run atomic explosion in the New Mexican desert. The fallout is still with us, literally and figuratively, 79 years later. This is the story of Trinity, based on declassified documents.
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"Believers of proactive nuclear deterrence, who say nuclear weapons are indispensable to maintain peace, are only delaying the progress toward nuclear disarmament," Hiroshima's governor added.
Hibiki Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Yoshida and Radomir Compel
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen born in Japan, challenges the prevailing American view that the US decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary or justified as a means of compelling Japan's surrender.
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