Today, 64 years back, the city of Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic explosions killing more than 140,000 people. The horror continued with tens of thousands more injured and thousands more birth defects for years to come.
Whilst mayor of Hebden Royd I signed the Cities Appeal in Support of Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol. This is a practical plan by which governments can achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world by the year 2020 given that the economic and technical means of ridding the world of nuclear weapons before 2020 already exist.
Tonight at 7:30, I'll be giving a talk on Lib Dem Defence Policy at the White Lion in Hebden Bridge, and publicising our total opposition to Trident.
On this fateful anniversary, we should all be determined that the scourge of nuclear weapons is never visited on our planet again.
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