ONE MILLION VOICES FOR
ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
A single nuclear warhead could kill hundreds of thousands of people, with lasting and devastating humanitarian and environmental consequences. Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea possess an estimated total of nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons, most of which are many times more powerful than the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima. Thirty-one other states are also part of the problem.
The UK Announced that it would increase its limit on its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades. Instead of decreasing its nuclear stockpile to 180 warheads in the mid 2020s, the United Kingdom will increase its stockpile cap to 260 warheads - a 40% increase. Furthermore in 2020 the UK spent an estimated $ 6.2 billion to maintain its nuclear weapons.
It was the first and only time that atomic bombs have been used in a war. Although the scientists who made the bombs were proud of what they'd achieved, it scared them as well. The way the atomic bomb was built meant it had huge power - enough to destroy whole cities on its own.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima.
It was the first and only time that atomic bombs have been used in a war.
On the 6th of August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and on the 9th in Nagasaki, Hiroshima with a population of 350.000. Hiroshima was apparently chosen because of the clear skies overhead that day. Good visibility made it easy to observe the destructive capacity of this new nuclear technology.
Under that mushroom cloud rising out of a temperature of 5,000 degrees centigrade, as we know water boils at 100 degrees and steel melts 1,500 degrees, 70,000 died instantly and many more afterwards. So within 4 months, 140,000 died and to this day, people continue to die from radiation related illnesses. The actual dropping of the bomb took only 10 seconds but the effects have continued, and will continue for generations.
Many people believe that the devastation caused in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki was so awful that the bombs should never be used again.
Over the years many leading scientists who know the danger of nuclear weapons, also many thousands and millions of people’s appeals have not reached those nine countries leaders yet. UK is one of them.
From a high of 70,300 active weapons in 1986, as of 2019 there are approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world.
This petition will presented to the U.K. Government and the United Nations.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial , originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome.