Nuclear arms race is heating. Will it take another bomb to renew pressure to disarm?

Eighty years after the fall of the first atomic bombs, experts and survivors warn that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be launched again, with the rise of the nuclear armament race.

“Most experts believe that the risk of nuclear use rises, and in some cases it increases significantly,” said Joseph Sirinsion, the national security analyst who has worked on nuclear proliferation for decades.

He told “The same drivers we saw in the fifties and sixties” that nourished the armament race “now”. Sunday magazine.

In January, the bulletin of the atomic scientists updated it The Day of Resurrection to read 89 seconds until midnightIt represents 12:00 at the moment of the destruction of humanity. The organization looked at factors such as climate change and progress in artificial intelligence, but it also highlighted the conflict in the Middle East and The possibility of a nuclear escalation in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

CIRINCIONE said that all nine nuclear weapons countries – the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – are currently working to increase or update delivery systems or delivery systems. He added that France is thinking Extension of the nuclear umbrella on other European Union countriesIncreasing the scope of deterrence, but also a potential conflict. Countries like South Korea are thinking Building their weapons for the first timeFor fear that they could no longer rely on the United States for Protection.

In June, Israel and the United States The targeted Iranian nuclear and military sitesWhich led to a 12 -day conflict. Friday, US President Donald Trump ordered the transfer of nuclear divers In response to “inflammatory data” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

CIRINCIONE said that all this comes after “40 years of cuts in nuclear arsenals,” adding that he has always taken “general pressure to move politicians in the right direction.”

He says he believes that public pressure is absent today because people took the trend towards disarmament and began to focus on other urgent issues, such as climate change.

He said that among some experts and activists, there is now a sense of pessimism that he may not be conceived to renew the disarmament boost.

“The opinion is basically we may need to see a nuclear bombing before alerting the public to threatening and motivating worship,” he said.

“Some of the fear that we may need to pass through the horror of their vision use.”

“My beloved city only”

The Canadian Japanese Canadian Sysko was thirteen years old and lived in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the United States blew up a atomic bomb on a quarter of a million people who lived there.

She says she remembers a deep flash of light, then she felt that she was floating. When I crawled from under a quiet building, everything around it was ruined and flame.

She said: “My beloved city has been flattened and burned with one bomb. 351 of his schoolmates, they were all burned to death, alive.”

She remembers her four -year -old nephew, “She turned into a piece of the body melted.”

Three days later, a second nuclear bomb was detonated on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The two explosions killed approximately 120,000 people immediately and tens of other thousands in the years. Japan’s surrender was announced on August 15, which put an end to the Second World War.

Thorlow, 93, married Canada in 1950 and now lives in Toronto. I worked for decades as active against nuclear weapons and was The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2017 To work with the international campaign to cancel nuclear weapons.

The author and journalist Garrett Graff said that the eighty anniversary of this year is “particularly influential” for many people, because a few survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still.

“I think it is up to us to move forward in their vision and their dream to ensure that … this is the last and only time that we use nuclear weapons.” Satan arrived towards the sky: an oral history of making and unleashing the atomic bomb.

Nuclear criticism can help other problems

Thorw shares fears that the other nuclear strike can be “approaching and closer”, and says that Canada is not doing enough to back down from nuclear spread, though this Surveys showed that the majority of Canadians want to eliminate nuclear weapons.

She said, “I was very anxious that the government did not respond to the will of the people,” she said, adding that it wanted to see Canada recovering “its respect and reputation throughout the world as a peace building.”

Sunday magazine She contacted the Canadian nuclear safety paradise to ask what Canada is doing about the global spread of nuclear weapons, but it was referred to Global Affairs Canada. GAC did not respond to the request for comment on the deadline.

Sirinsion said in the 1980s, Millions of People Participated all over the world Demonstrations against nuclear weapons. He says he believes that the payment can be revived for disarmament if it can be combined with other movements of change.

“Do you want to increase health care, you want to increase education? Where will you get money?” He said.

The answer may lie in Higher global spending on nuclear weaponsHe said: “This can provide a great source of money you need for human needs, not human destruction.”