Commemorating the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings and a call for nuclear disarmament

Abolition will never happen in a strategic vacuum. The elimination of nuclear weapons will require a durable security framework based upon the principles of common security and sustainable peace.

The U.S. detonated two nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people. We must collectively push our governments forward to take action, write Robin Collins, Sylvie Lemieux, and Erika Simpson. Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Opinion

BY ROBIN COLLINS, SYLVIE LEMIEUX, AND ERIKA SIMPSON

August 9, 2021

This year we commemorate the 76th anniversary of the use of atomic weapons over Japan. In 1945, a 14-kiloton uranium bomb exploded at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, and a 20-kiloton plutonium bomb on Aug. 9 was dropped over Nagasaki. The bombs killed between 129,000 and 226,000...

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