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08/08/2025

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Tomorrow's national march for Palestine coincides with !

While Israel's destruction of Gaza has been slow and methodical over the course of almost two years, it's hard not to compare the sheer scale of the devastation with that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - not only in the buildings that no longer stand but the humanitarian disaster that continues to unfold. This was not lost on the Hibakusha of Nihon Hidankyo, whose leaders drew parallels between the suffering of children in Gaza today and those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 when accepting last year's Nobel Peace Prize. In the months since those words were spoken, conditions in Gaza have only got worse.

While the British government pays lip service to the cause of nuclear disarmament, it continues to modernise and expand its nuclear arsenal. It also continues to support Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Join CND and the Palestine Coalition on the streets this Saturday as we march to Downing Street to demand an end to Britain's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians!

08/08/2025

🪧Route map for the upcoming national march for Palestine!

🗓️ This Saturday
📍 Russell Square to Downing St
⏰ Assemble 12 noon

06/08/2025

https://pugwash.org/2025/08/06/pugwash-statement-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

Bertrand Russell The Royal Society Albert Einstein Nobel Prize

6 August 2025 Eighty years ago, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered the world’s first attack by atomic bombings, the legacy of which remains visible and strongly felt today. The Pugwash C…

06/08/2025

What are the lessons from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years on? Spend an evening learning from three experts.

04/08/2025

03/08/2025

The next national march for Palestine coincides with Nagasaki Day. If you are attending the earlier demonstration, you're welcome to join London Region CND for their commemoration event at the London Peace Pagoda later that evening.

Details: https://cnduk.org/events/no-more-hiroshimas-nagasaki-day-at-the-london-peace-pagoda/

27/07/2025

At the Potsdam Conference of the Allies in 1945, President Truman noted in his diary that there had been a "telegram from J*p emperor asking for peace".

Despite J*panese efforts to negotiate peace, the J*panese were ordered to surrender unconditionally. When J*pan held out, an atomic bomb was dropped on the J*panese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, killing 70,000 people instantly. Three days later, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 40,000 instantly.

What was it like to experience the bombings first-hand? What are the lessons for today, as we face the risk of war between nuclear-armed NATO and nuclear-armed Russia? Join us on 6th August by registering for free at the link below to listen to:

Mr Kazuo Maruta, a 93-year-old hibakusha, i.e., atomic bomb survivor. In his interview (which had to be pre-recorded due to the time difference), he explains how his world changed in a single day, when he narrowly avoided being wiped out himself. It was not until school lessons eventually resumed that he learned a third of his classmates were now dead.

Prof Geoffrey Roberts, Professor Emeritus of History at University College, Cork. An expert on Russian and World War II history, his publications include "Stalin's Wars: from World War to Cold War" and "Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov", which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award. He is a regular commentator on geopolitics.

Kathy Kelly, President of World Beyond War, which is a leading peace organisation with chapters across the world, and which was involved in organising the 2018 Dublin Conference on US/NATO military bases. Kathy has taken her peace activism to warzones, and in 2003 stood by the Iraqi people, refusing to leave Baghdad even when the bombing started. She has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace and has been sent to federal prison in the US for her activism.

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