Campaigners in the City Centre are protesting against the use of nuclear weapons as today marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings.
Nottingham campaigners are protesting against Britain’s use of a Nuclear deterrent, exactly seventy years after the Hiroshima bombing.
The protestors have joined groups across the country as they took to the streets to protest against weapons of mass destruction.
Picture: The protest in Nottingham City Centre as today marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima attack.
Jeremy Jago, a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), believes that having nuclear weapons is increasing international tension.
“Nuclear war is seen as too remote to be thought about as an everyday thing. But from time to time people need to think seriously whether nuclear weapons are relevant in today’s world.”
Mr jago who has been a campaigner since 1985 believes that it is an issue that is always under the surface of people’s conciousness but it now needs to be brought to the surface.
He said: “I think that the possession of nuclear weapons internationally is a moral question.”
Tom Unterrainer, a member of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in Nottingham, spoke at today’s rally and believes that Trident submarines, the current generation of British nuclear weapons, should not be renewed.
Video: Mr Unterrainer is campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons.
The attack on Hiroshima in 1945, killed around a hundred and forty thousand people and just a few days later, a fifty thousand died when Nagasaki was also bombed.
These bombings which happened 70 years ago remain the only ever wartime use of nuclear weapons.
