80 Years after the US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?
Speaker: Gerry Condon
“Nuclear weapons are used every day. They are like a gun you point at somebody’s head.”
– Daniel Ellsberg
Eighty years ago, the US dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the world is closer to nuclear war even than during the Cuban missile crisis, and the Pentagon is planning a nuclear first-strike against China. Some say the absence of another nuclear war in the last eighty years proves that nuclear “deterrence” is working – but with the increasingly aggressive U.S. foreign policy, how long can “deterrence” work?
Our speaker, Gerry Condon, is a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister, a former president and current national board member of Veterans For Peace (VFP), and chair of their Golden Rule peace boat committee. Gerry is currently coordinating the Golden Rule’s month-long visit to San Francisco Bay. Gerry serves on the steering committee of the Peace In Ukraine Coalition, the board of the Task Force on the Americas, and the advisory board of the US Peace Council. In 1968, Gerry refused Army orders to deploy to Vietnam. He was court-martialed and sentenced to ten years in prison, but fled to Sweden, where he worked with the American Deserters Committee, and to Canada, where he worked with the AMEX-Canada war resister collective.
See these articles on peace by Gerry Condon:
Eighty Years After the U.S. Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?
‘The Law Is Simple’: Israel’s Unregulated Nukes Mean Biden Must Halt Military Aid
Remembering Nuclear Victims 71 Years after the Castle Bravo Test
