Vigils are being held around Scotland to mark the 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
They take place amid warnings that the world is now closer to nuclear catastrophe than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis during the Cold War.
On Tuesday, on the eve of the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki which killed at least 74,000 people, there will be a webinar with speaker Linda Pentz Gunter from Beyond Nuclear International, who will argue that racism fundamentally underpinned the decision to release the two bombs and this pattern of discrimination repeated itself throughout the Cold War almost everywhere atomic tests took place.
In Paisley, there will be a walk to the peace garden in Barshaw Park starting at 3.45pm where the speakers will beThe events will finish in Edinburgh at 6pm with a vigil at the crossroads of Castle Street and Princes Street from 6pm to 7pm with Protest in Harmony singing and Lynn Jamieson speaking for Edinburgh CND.
She said reports that the US was again wanting to store nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk was “worrying”. The US Trident nuclear missiles on the Clyde are a breach of the treaty, Jamieson said, and siting US nuclear bombs in Suffolk would be another breach. “It’s interesting in some respects but it didn’t need to be three hours long and you never see a single Japanese person,” she said.
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