Articles by Rebecca Johnson
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Preventing another Hiroshima
Rebecca Johnson, Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. Three days later, Nagasaki was shattered by a plutonium bomb. Over the next 40 years, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China) amassed some 70,000 nuclear weapons with a combined explosive force of 15 million tons. Between them Israel, Pakistan and India could have 300-400 nuclear weapons. [Enough to obliterate the planet 12 TIMES OVER]
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Rebecca Johnson – Open Democracy,
21 Jun 2010
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive abolition objectives of a nuclear weapons convention. It will no longer be possible for governments to dismiss calls for a comprehensive nuclear abolition treaty.
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