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Has our real concern about CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING made us forget the threat of ATOMIC WAR?

Having written on numerous occasions on the nuclear safety issue in the past as well as being the author of the Nuclear Rectangle theory (a major nuclear war world could modify the orbit of planet Earth round the sun),  I urge readers to join the worldwide campaign of the seventies to BAN THE BOMB, to fight for nuclear safety. It is more than ever necessary today with the aggression of Russia against the independent state of Ukraine.

At present NINE countries out of 193 countries on Planet Earth , all Members of the United Nations, possess nuclear weapons (atomic or hydrogen bombs), namely:

With North Korea expanding its nuclear arsenal, other countries are trying to get the bomb (Iran for example?). On the positive side 4 countries that formerly possessed nuclear weapons gave them up, namely: South Africa and the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. One of the greatest fears today is that a terrorist organisation gets its hands on a nuclear device, some of which are small enough to get into a large lorry.

Radiation is the greatest enemy of life, of all organic living things on Planet Earth.  A full nuclear war would pollute the entire Planet and threaten life on Earth. Remember the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, where radioactive material was released and affected people, animal and plants.

In this nuclear world, what is the meaning of ‘safe’?

Consider these pertinent questions:


“Since Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and family? What level of exposure is safe?  How do you get access to vital information? What are the potential risks of acute and chronic exposures? What are the related consequential damages of exposure? How do you rebuild a healthy way of life in the aftermath of nuclear disaster? (Barbara Rose Johnston, 2011). Only a Geiger counter can measure atomic radiation. 

During the Cold War, scientific findings on health effects to nuclear fallout contradicted the official narrative. Research showed that ‘Japanese children who were exposed to fallout of Hiroshima were not only smaller than their counterparts, but had less resistance to disease in general and were more susceptible to cancer, especially leukemia.”

ONLY ONE COUNTRY: The United States detonated two ATOMIC BOMBS, over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on 6th August) and Nagasaki (on 9th August) 1945. How many people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

The two bombs killed an estimated 130,000 and 225,000 people respectively, most of whom were civilians. Half of these deaths occurred at the moment the bombs explodes, the remainder over the next 2 to 4 months due to radiation and burns. The USA remains the ONLY country to have used nuclear weapon TO DESTROY cities and structures AND INFLICT DEATH, admittedly in an armed conflict, the Second World War. Japan did surrender to the Allies on August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki. The Japanese government signed the surrendered on September 2 in Tokyo Bay, effectively ending World War II.

Never again! We must pray for the world to control this madness of making and stockpiling nuclear weapons which if used can ONLY BRING death and destruction of the Environment, making some part of the planet inhabitable (like the BIKINI ATOLL in the PACIFIC on which the USA detonated its first hydrogen bomb, after its inhabitants were moved elsewhere (like the Chagossians), never to return. The nuclear tests in Bikini and by other nations (Russia, UK, France, China, India) caused a spike in atmospheric levels of carbon 14, a radioactive isotope that’s naturally created by cosmic rays interacting with nitrogen. Like other forms of carbon, C-14 is readily absorbed by plants and, in turn, animals. Every human on Earth had twice as much radioactive C-14 after those tests as before.

To add to the AGGRESSION of Ukraine by Russia last week, there is a unique nuclear threat. For the first time in history a major war is being waged in a country with multiple nuclear reactors and thousands of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel. On 3rd March Russia bombed the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, with heightened risk of a severe nuclear accident. As long as this war continues, the military threat to Ukraine’s nuclear plants will remain. This is why most of the world is condemning totally President Putin’s upgrading of level of preparedness the nuclear capacity of Russia, a threat to the entire Planet. This is one further reason, amongst so many, why Putin needs to immediately cease his war on Ukraine.” 

Dr Michael Atchia
(Past Programme Director with the United Nations) 
mklatchia@intnet.mu    3rd March 2022,   Mauritius

NOTE : Les points de vue exprimés dans cette rubrique ne reflètent pas nécessairement ceux de la rédaction et n’engagent que les auteurs eux-mêmes.

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