The anniversary of the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, provide an opportunity for all our supporters to recommit to our campaign for a world without nuclear weapons.
As the Second World War was ending in 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, and another on Nagasaki on August 9th. An estimated 340,000 people died as a result of the two bombs, with hundreds of thousands more suffering from severe burns, cancers, and fertility problems.
Today 12,000 nuclear weapons still threaten our survival. Nuclear rhetoric around the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East has showed us how these weapons can make a dangerous situation even riskier. The possibility of nuclear war is the greatest for many decades.
Click here for CND’s online exhibition marking the anniversary
Britain is now the third biggest spender on nuclear weapons in the world – overtaking Russia. It wants to buy nuclear-capable fighter jets and is increasing its existing nuclear arsenal to 260 warheads. Each of these bombs is eight times the power of the one dropped on Hiroshima.
We should not be spending billions of pounds on weapons of mass destruction when investment is urgently needed in our NHS, education system and green jobs. Let’s demand the government prioritises People not Nukes!
What can you do?
Go along to a commemorative event
CND groups across the country organise events to mark the anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why not attend your local one?
Join CND
CND is a movement that campaigns for a world without nuclear weapons, so that we’ll never see another Hiroshima or Nagasaki again. Join us today to be a part of this work.
Share the message
Get your No More Hiroshimas tshirt to wear to start conversations about why we need to get rid of nuclear weapons today. And you can order leaflets explaining the importance of these anniversaries.
Watch our video
CND’s video (below) includes powerful testimony from Kyoko Gibson, a second generation Hibakusha (survivor) on the emotional and psychological horrors of nuclear war.
Let’s work together to make sure no one else ever suffers the same pain and devastation.