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Nuclear choices

In an age of conflict and climate change, we must listen to the people of
Fukushima and Hiroshima.

In recent years, the threat of nuclear conflict
has resurfaced, non-proliferation movements are faltering, and climate
change and technological acceleration have created ever more complex
dangers. Russia is threatening to use its nuclear capabilities on the
battlefield, rogue states like North Korea are armed, and the future of
Iran’s nuclear programme is in the spotlight after the US-Israeli attacks
on its nuclear sites. Meanwhile, Britain stands alongside many other
developed countries in committing to new nuclear power stations to meet
energy demand and decrease the use of fossil fuels.

Nowhere is this nuclear
complexity clearer than in Japan, where the memory of nuclear war and the
danger of civil nuclear disaster sit firmly in the public consciousness.
Hiroshima and Fukushima are very different tragedies, yet they can both
tell us about our common future. Both offer lessons in how to recover
without forgetting, of how to renew without obscuring the enormity of what
has happened. As we confront the spectre of climate change, and the
transformation of our world by our own hands, that is perhaps the most
important message to carry with us.

New Humanist 25th Sept 2025 https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6459/nuclear-choices

September 27, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized