2 results for tag: Nuclear Bombs
Imagining a Nuclear Free World
Imagining a Nuclear Free World
By Phil Anderson
John Lennon's song “Imagine” asks us to “imagine all the people living life in peace.” What we imagine shapes the way we see the world and how we behave in the world.
August 6th and August 9th are the 70th anniversaries of the U.S bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear weapons.
As we remember these tragedies, can we imagine a nuclear weapons free world? We created these weapons of mass destruction and are the only
nation to ever use them against civilian targets. We should take responsibility for them by actively working for their abolition.
Unfortunately, we are still ...
Remember the Past but Work for the Future
August 6, 1945 we dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The world changed forever. We came under the shadow of a nuclear mushroom cloud that is still with us 69 years later.
We should remember the dead and wounded from the horrific events of that time. At Hiroshima we killed an estimated 166,000 and, three days later, 80,000 in Nagasaki. Most of these dead were non-combatant civilians of all ages.
We should remember that war has always been destructive. But with the atomic age we reached a new level of destructiveness. During the arms race of the cold war we built arsenals with the power to literally destroy the world. When you ...