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Nuclear weapons are not weapons of war and self-destructive, says Datuk Dr Ronald McCoy, the founder of Nobel Peace Prize-winning anti-nuclear group ICAN. Dr McCoy, a former Victoria Institution student was speaking at a press conference after the launch of the school’s 125th anniversary celebration.

The average age of the hibakusha now exceeds 81 years. The “era in which the hibakusha are still with us” is drawing to an end. I strongly request that the Japanese government improves the assistance given to hibakusha, and provides relief to all those who experienced the atomic bombing.

Orwell (and the President) Come to Hiroshima by Joseph Gerson, April 6, 2016 This article was previously published by CommonDreams.org. Republished here under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. How to you hide a trillion dollars or spending $66,000 a minute for thirty years building a new nuclear arsenal? PutRead More

In the ultimate analysis, the issue of nuclear weapons is a moral question. It is a question of right and wrong, good and evil, ethics. It is this ethical aspect of nuclear weapons, especially as it applies to the designing and manufacture of nuclear weapons, that will be focussed on here.