The daily existential threat posed by nuclear weapons can seem abstract, distant, difficult to grasp, unable to be influenced and disconnected from ordinary life. It is the power of human stories that can break through this denial and sense of disconnection and powerlessness. For many – survivors of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; civilian and military people working at nuclear test sites around the world, and those in communities downstream and downwind; workers exposed to radiation and other toxins while producing nuclear weapons – nuclear weapons are not an abstract or distant threat but a lived reality of indiscriminate suffering and harm which continues. I want to pay tribute to the dedication and courage of the hibakusha and nuclear test explosions survivors who tell of pain and trauma that no human being should ever have endured, and work to ensure that no one else suffers as they have.[Remarks in their entirety on Humanitarian Law & Policy blog]
“The contamination from nuclear test explosions is in every one of our bodies”
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