Tag: Nagasaki

The recently adopted Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament merely emphasized the importance of a nuclear deterrence policy.

Several groups wrote to the Hiroshima city government asking it not to sign the agreement with U.S. counterparts.

The August 1945 bombings divided world history into two eras — the one before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the one after.

Relations between Russia and the U.S., the two nuclear superpowers, are under significant strain and both are modernizing their nuclear arsenals.

[O]nce the pact’s automatic extensions expire, it’s possible the agreement may end ... There’s no telling when the situation may suddenly change.

Anything is possible. Even if, for the time being, it is just a verbal escalation, there is no guarantee that a nuclear war will not break out between the United States and North Korea.

An appeal for the eradication of weapons of mass destruction is easy and yet promises nothing, particularly when such a plea comes from a potential nuclear arms proliferator that isn’t ready to make the gesture that would convince us of its good faith, namely by reducing an arsenal capable of destroying the planet 100 times over.