Toward A Nuclear Free World Newsletter - August 2023 in Retrospect

Toward A Nuclear Free World Newsletter - August 2023 in Retrospect

 

 

 

TOWARD A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD

A Joint Media Project of

the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency

and Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.

A separate issue for August 2023

 

 

 

Image source: UNFOLD ZERO - Photo: 2023


African Connection of Atom Bomb That Destroyed Hiroshima


By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK. 24 August 2023 (IDN) — This month marks the anniversary of the first use of an atomic bomb, developed in the U.S. and dropped on a Japanese city to deadly effect.

Little is known, however, of the African connection to this deadly weapon—namely the use of uranium in making the bomb and subsequent atomic weapons —all of the mineral sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. > Read more

 Chair (on podium), four panelists and a section of the audience of the Forum on "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons is Possible" on 11 September 2023 in Berlin held as part of the International Meeting "The Audacity of Peace" hosted by the lay Catholic Association Community of Sant’Egidio. The Forum was co-organized by Soka Gakkai and others. Credit: Sant'Egidio. - Photo: 2023
Hiroshima Was Not Necessary or Inevitable

By Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden. 15 August 2023 (IDN) — 78 years ago, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9 was premeditated mass murder.

President Harry Truman had a workable alternative to using the atom bomb- to cooperate with Stalin, as Roosevelt and Churchill had done on the Western front and in the Soviet advance on Japan, rather than making it a race for control. Indeed, it was the Soviet advance that convinced Japan to surrender. > Read more...

 


First Person: Life Story of a 3rd Generation Survivor of Soviet Nuclear Tests in Kazakhstan

VIENNA. 13 August 2023 (IDN) — At a side event co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan in Vienna, Soka Gakkai International (SGI), and Center for International Security and Policy (Kazakhstan), Dmitriy Vesselov—a third-generation Semipalatinsk nuclear-testing survivor—spoke at the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) beginning of August 2023 in Vienna.

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Photo from L to R: Ivana Nikolic Hughes (NAPF), Nikolai Sokov (VCDNP) , Christine Muttonen (PNND), Chie Sunada (SGI). Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri, Multimedia Director of IDN-INPS.
It’s Time for No-First Use as Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight


By Aurora Weiss

VIENNA. 11 August 2023 (IDN) — At the two-week-long Preparatory Committee meeting here for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International (SGI)—in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)—and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation organized a side event. (P 16) ITALIAN | JAPANESE
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Photo: Arms Control and Nonproliferation. Credit: United States Department of State.

The Erosion of The International Arms Control Regimes

By Sergio Duarte

The writer is an Ambassador, former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

NEW YORK. 9 August 2023 (IDN) — Nuclear weapons burst into the international scenario 21 days after the signature of the Charter of the United Nations. For that chronological reason, the Charter does not mention nuclear weapons. (P 15) INDONESIAN |  JAPANESE | KOREAN 

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Vanessa Lanteigne, Program Officer at Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), presenting proposals on Gender Inclusivity at the NPT Working Group at the UN on 23 July.


Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Bypasses Gender Parity

An Early Warning to Prevent Renewed & Catastrophic Korean War

By Joseph Gerson*

NEW YORK. 9 August 2023 (IDN) — Along with the obvious and increasing military tensions across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China/West Philippine Sea, the continuing danger that confrontational policies, arms racing, and provocative military operations across and around the Korean Peninsula could all too easily trigger escalation to the unthinkable.

Will ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Avert Nuclear Holocaust?

By Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN. 4 August 2023 (IDN) — The release of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer sparked a media frenzy just weeks before the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in Vienna.

It is a biopic about the “father” of the atomic bomb, which wiped out the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people. (P13) GERMAN | JAPANESE

Nuclear weapons sent by Russia to Belarus will target Europe. Source: YouTube Kanal 13 Global

Kazakhstan Continues to Suffer Awful Impact of Nuclear Tests

By Aurora Weiss

VIENNA. 4 August 2023 (IDN) — The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, along with Japan and other Pacific Island states, is one of the most challenging in terms of the consequences of testing or use of nuclear weapons. Being a young state, Kazakhstan is facing a very heavy heritage and its difficult legacy. (P 12) HINDI | JAPANESE  

Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General of Peace and Global Issues, Soka Gakkai International (Right) at a one-day international conference titled ‘Advancing Security and Sustainability at the G7 Hiroshima Summit’ held at the University on March 29, 2023.　Credit: SGI

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 'Nuclear Tests?

By Norman Solomon*

SAN FRANCISCO, USA. 2 August 2023 (IDN) — In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official booklet with the title “Announced United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 Through December 1979”. As you’d expect, the Trinity test in New Mexico was at the top of the list. Second on the list was Hiroshima. Third was Nagasaki.

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US Submarine Provokes Renewed Tensions in the Korean Peninsula

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS. 2 August 2023 (IDN) — The United States, which has long accused North Korea of nuclear sabre-rattling, is now at the receiving end of the same charges.

The accusations have been prompted by the arrival in South Korea on July 18 of a US submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles.
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