Archive for October 7th, 2024

07/10/2024

What Happens If Nuclear Weapons Are Used?

Human Wrongs Watch

By The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in their uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout, they are unlike any other weapons.

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A single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people. The use of tens or hundreds of nuclear bombs would disrupt the global climate, causing widespread famine.

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07/10/2024

US Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands Between 1946 and 1958 Left Communities Displaced, Contributed to Radioactive Land and Sea Pollution 

Human Wrongs Watch

UN Human Rights Council Examines Nuclear Legacy Consequences in the Marshall Islands

A boy stands on a seawall that protects his family home from the rising seas in Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
© UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin | A boy stands on a seawall that protects his family home from the rising seas in Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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(UN News)* — The UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue on Friday [] to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall Islands, which representatives from the Pacific nation said has left their people with some of the highest rates of cancer globally.