“Humanity cannot survive a nuclear war”
JVL Introduction
Today is Nagasaki day, when the second atomic bomb was dropped in war. Together with the bomb on Hiroshima three days earlier, at least two hundred thousand people were killed.
The first bomb, “Little Boy” was an enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon. It was too good an opportunity to waste the possibility of live testing the second, “Fat Man”, a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon on this day, 78 years ago.
The threat of nuclear annihilation, first manifested with these two bombs, has never gone away. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier this year: “This is the closest the clock has ever stood to humanity’s darkest hour.”
Jeremy Corbyn, writing in Tribune on Hiroshima day, remembers – and remarks:
“I will never understand the pride and excitement with which so many politicians proclaim they would be prepared to launch a nuclear attack. In what circumstances is it necessary to annihilate humanity?
RK
This article was originally published by Tribune on Sun 6 Aug 2023. Read the original here.
Humanity cannot survive a nuclear war
On Hiroshima Day, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the world has never been closer to nuclear war – and that the only way to avoid catastrophe is to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all.
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You are right, Jeremy, and I fully agree with you.
This is a simple but hugely significant argument, penned by a man whose honest integrity was too good to survive in today’s Labour party. We are paying an enormous price for choosing Johnson over him in the 2019 general election.
Well done, Jeremy Corbyn.
In his memoirs, Tony Blair demolished any defence arguments for replacing Trident. And so, he was left with the question of status. In fact, status is what Britain’s nuclear weapons have been about all along. Ernest Bevin said that Britain must have nuclear weapons in response to a big row that he had recently had with Secretary of State James Byrnes.
Blair concludes by stating that he gave the go ahead for Trident to be replaced ‘but the contrary decision would not have been stupid’.
Too right it wouldn’t. Let us all work to get this issue re-opened and reversed. Our very survival depends on it.
I hope that Corbyn will decide to seek re-election in his constituency as an independent at the next election.
Jeremy says it all and is 100% correct.
Do the morons who support nuclear weapons and, even, their use have no concern for their families and the rest of humanity?
The man partially responsible for the Johnson victory over peace loving Corbyn is the NATO (first use policy) loving Keir Starmer. What hope has peace got should he become PM in 2024? More NATO no peace. No NATO more peace.
Would Putin have invaded Ukraine if they not given up their nuclear weapons?