#SEASON A LETTER TO THE FUTURE ENDING FREE#
No matter what the risks might be, the earth and our future generations are depending on our country to lead the way toward a nuclear free world.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It could begin by Congress passing H.RES 77. A way for the United States to honor this day and to compensate for the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be to lead the nations of the world in unilaterally eliminating all of its nuclear weapons. Hiroshima Remembrance Day promotes peace politics against nuclear war. He hopes that by telling his story he will become free from the memory of the horror of that day. More recently, in a discussion group, a man described his experience in the military of walking through the rubble of Hiroshima soon after the bombing. The result of his willingness to tell his story was an affirmative vote to declare the town a nuclear free zone. He described the incredible explosion, the fear he felt, and the after effects from the exposure. In the 1980s, at a New Hampshire town meeting, a man revealed his painful experience, while in the military, of being ordered to watch a nuclear bomb test from a bunker nearby. Oppenheimer, watching the first test bomb, said with regret as the mushroom cloud rose: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” His lament may be an incentive for nuclear disarmament. It “calls on the President to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of the national security policy of the United States…” It has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services. This resolution was introduced in January 2023 and has 38 co-sponsors. This treaty is one of the reasons for U.S. It calls for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
On January 22, 2021, an alternative global nuclear policy was adopted by 122 nations by signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. should never use nuclear weapons under any circumstances. A YouGov/Huffington Post survey has reported that 17% of those surveyed said the U.S.
People are beginning to consider a nuclear free world. It is possible to become a nuclear free (other than by blowing up all of the bombs in a nuclear war). Refusing to respond with more nuclear bombing might be a courageous sacrifice for the recovery of the earth and hope for future generations. Even if a country chooses to use nuclear weapons, a nuclear response would only make the respondent complicit in adding to the world-wide devastation. For example, a limited nuclear war in south Asia involving just 250 Hiroshima-sized 15 kiloton warheads could result in 52,000,000 direct fatalities, loft 37,000,000 tons of soot into the upper atmosphere, and cause climate disruption across the planet, cutting food production and putting an estimated 930,000,000 people worldwide at risk of death due to famine over two years.”Ĭonsidering a nuclear war would affect the whole planet, there would seem to be absolutely no reason to keep nuclear bombs that would be suicide to use. 77, citing scientific studies and models, “even a tiny fraction of these (nuclear) weapons could cause worldwide climate disruption and global famine. It is also hard to accept that these bombs are ready to be used at any time.Īccording to the U.S.
There are seven other countries that hold the rest: China, France, Israel, India, North Korea, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. and Russia possess 95% of the 14,000 nuclear weapons today. Nor is it comfortable to know that the U.S. It is hard to face that the United States is the only country to have ever dropped an Atomic bomb on a city. It killed 70,000 to 126,000 civilians, 20,000 soldiers, and 12 Allied prisoners of war. 78 years ago, a B-29 bomber dropped a uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima. He can be reached at 6 is Hiroshima Remembrance Day. John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing.
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