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ANTI-ARMS campaigners will mark the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings this weekend as they warn of the increased nuclear risk the world faces.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) groups across Britain will gather on Sunday to honour the memory of the hundreds and thousands of lives that were lost in the attacks.
The anniversary comes in the year when the hands of the Doomsday Clock stand at 90 seconds to midnight, the measurement showing how the world is the closest it has ever been to a human-made global catastrophe.
And nations across the world continue to modernise and expand their nuclear arsenals, including Britain despite our being a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty which requires us to disarm.
Britain joined the United States and France at the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May at an event commemorating the atrocity, while failing to make progress on disarmament.
CND general secretary Kate Hudson called on global leaders to take active steps to achieve nuclear disarmament “before it’s too late.”
She said: “While the movie Oppenheimer tells the story of how the atomic bomb was made, commemorations are an important reminder of why they must never be used again.
“CND honours and remembers the victims of the atrocities that occurred at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and calls on the public to join us in these commemorations.
“There are no winners from possessing nuclear weapons and we call on leaders to acknowledge their responsibility in preventing such horrors from ever happening again.”
On Wednesday, CND Cymru members and supporters gathered for a rally in Trawsfynydd before setting off on a five-day march to the Eisteddfod to highlight the negative effects of nuclear power as well as the positive effects of renewable energy on communities.
CND Cymru national secretary Dylan Lewis-Rowlands told the crowd: “Trawsfynydd is a perfect microcosm of the nuclear industry — a ruin being desperately resuscitated by corporate interests and misled government.
“Let us look forward to the future we are working for: energy created in our communities by renewable sources owned by our communities.
“That is the future we march towards.
“Forward — to a stronger, fairer, greener future for our communities — forward we go.”
A full list of the events can be found on the CND website.
