Win Without War: Hiroshima + Nagasaki [signatures needed]
This week, seventy-five years ago, the United States conducted two nuclear attacks against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan — destroying infrastructure and devastating people.
75 years later, nuclear weapons are still here.
And so are the survivors.
Today, the hibakusha, or those who survived the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are calling on all governments to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
And they’re asking for your support.
We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers.
Vital international agreements to reduce and control nuclear weapons worldwide are being abandoned by the Trump administration. Budgets for the development and production of new nuclear weapons are growing. Tensions among nuclear-armed nations are rising to levels not seen since the Cold War.
The thing is, Kevin, people created nuclear weapons and designed the systems governing their use — and people can work to eliminate them.
As the only country to use nuclear weapons in conflict, the United States has a moral obligation to lead the world in ending this threat and restoring justice and safety for communities impacted by nuclear weapons.
We must press our leaders to take the actions necessary to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again, and to negotiate in good faith the global elimination of these most devastating weapons of mass destruction.
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The hibakusha are the best known nuclear survivors, but they are not the only ones:
Downwinders who grew up near the United States’ nuclear testing and production sites in states including Utah, New Mexico and Washington.
People from the Marshall Islands who endured 12 years of U.S. nuclear testing, and continue to face the negative health consequences of those tests decades later.
U.S. military veterans sent to observe nuclear tests and clean up nuclear waste have fought for years for compensation for the harm they've suffered.
Uranium workers mined and produced the raw materials to make nuclear weapons, often on Indigenous land, without ever being told of the severe health risks.
They are all survivors.
Today, let’s all do what we can to support survivors in the fight for justice, and work towards a nuclear-free world.
Thank you for working for peace,
Caroline, Kate, Tara, and the Win Without War team
August 4, 2020