World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs Hiroshima
August 2 – 9, 2019

74 years have passed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These indiscriminate and terrorizing bombings were designed to extend U.S. power in Asia, and to introduce nuclear blackmail as a new political tool at the dawn of the Cold War. The United States, Russia, Britain, France and China spent approximately $10 trillion dollars to develop national nuclear programs. This is comparable to the annual budget of all the rest of the world’s militaries for decades.

On the occasion of the Global Days of Action on Military Spending

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its new report on global military spending on Monday the 29^th of April 2019 and once again we feel obliged to state our concern and outrage and call on every individual and group to take action and publicly denounce this nonsense. The world’s military expenditure for 2018 was $ 1822 billion, 83 billion more than in 2017, passing from a 1.1% to a 2.6% increase in real terms. Militarization is therefore accelerating at an alarming rate at a time when it should be drastically reduced in order to tackle the grave challenges humanity is facing.

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