On this important anniversary, our friends at Institute for Policy Studies are calling for a commitment from the US to end the use of nuclear weapons:
“The United States owes Hiroshima and Nagasaki an apology for committing atrocities against their citizens, but an apology is not enough. It’s a symbolic gesture, empty without a commitment to concrete action to ensure that such atrocities never occur again.
“The United States owes the rest of the world a solemn promise to act to prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to engage in tangible steps toward their elimination.”
Read more here: https://www.insidesources.com/counterpoint-u-s-should-apologize-for-bombing-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
Check out our film Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse to learn more about nuclear disasters and life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone!
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