Hiroshima Day message 'still rings true'

August 5, 2007 - 12:59PM
Australia's growing international belligerence means the anti-war message of Hiroshima Day continues to ring true, event organisers say.
Hiroshima Day was marked on Sunday with a noon rally at Sydney's Hyde Park, where speakers called for world peace and the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
A similar protest was scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Melbourne.
The event is the annual international commemoration of the anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons that instantly killed 90,000 in Hiroshima and injured many more on August 6, 1945.
The US also dropped nuclear bombs on Nagasaki three days later, resulting in the immediate deaths of 40,000 more. By the end of 1945, over 200,000 were dead in the two Japanese cities. At the Sydney rally, anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott said the commemoration of Hiroshima had never been more important.
"The world is facing greater instability in more and more areas," Dr Caldicott said.
"Regional wars could escalate to a global nuclear holocaust as the US and Russia have so many nuclear weapons primed and ready to go."

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