MaximsNewsNetwork: 6 July 2010 - IAEA - CTBTO: Vienna, Austria - The Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano says the world owes the victims of the nuclear catastrophe the commitment that "we will do everything in our power to make sure we never see another Hiroshima, another Nagasaki." Friday (6 August 2010) is the 65th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Sixty-five summers ago today on 6 August 1945, a single U.S. airplane dropped a single bomb on Hiroshima and three days later another single bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing more than 200,000 Japanese who died from nuclear radiation, the blasts from the explosion, fire and thermal radiation.
To mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano spoke about the Agency's efforts to facilitate nuclear disarmament and aid nuclear security.
Amano, who will be attending the memorial events in Japan on Friday (6 August) to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, outlined his own, personal commitment to redouble efforts towards a world free of nuclear weapons.
He said that "as a human being and particularly as a citizen of the only country ever to suffer such a nuclear catastrophe, I believe with all my heart and soul that these horrific weapons must be eliminated."
Early development of nuclear weapons took place at Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the United States (US) during the Second World War. Three weeks later, on 6 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" on Hiroshima.
Amano, who said that the "names Hiroshima and Nagasaki have gone down in history as shorthand for nuclear devastation," added that the world owes the victims the commitment that "we will do everything in our power to make sure we never see another Hiroshima, another Nagasaki."
The bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima devastated an area of five square miles (13 square kilometres). An estimated 140,000 people were killed or died by the end of that year. During the following months and years, many died from burns, radiation sickness and other injuries.
Spokesperson for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Annika Thunborg said that it was only by being in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today that "you can start to understand the horrors of nuclear weapons."
She added that now was the time for the 190 countries that committed to a nuclear weapons free world in New York in May, to take action to "bring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty in force."
At the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in May 2010, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of "doubts about compliance" and "resentments between nuclear 'haves' and 'have-nots.'"
The Review Conference concluded with the unanimous adoption of an outcome document that contained steps to speed progress on nuclear disarmament, advance non-proliferation and work towards a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke today in Nagasaki Japan, "I have offered a five-point plan on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. It includes recommendations on security, verification, transparency, conventional weapons and the legal framework for nuclear disarmament."
See: http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=4709
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