80 years after Hiroshima, anti-nuclear activists are still fighting for progress
Posted on August 4, 2025, by Loretto Community
Posted by Global Sisters Report August 4, 2025
For those active in nuclear disarmament work, the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, respectively) is a reminder of how much work is left to be done before the world is free of the nuclear menace.
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Catholic sisters involved in such advocacy work — many of them now in their 70s and 80s, and with many of their peers who were active in anti-nuclear movements 40 or more years ago now gone — note that the continued threat of nuclear war has not penetrated public consciousness.
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The 2022 full-scale invasion by Russia of Ukraine — with Russia occasionally issuing threats about the use of nuclear weapons — has shed a limited spotlight on the nuclear issue again, McCormick said. But overall, the global nuclear threat is not at the top of many agendas. “I’m very concerned that, in the U.S., we’re in denial that these weapons won’t ever be used.”
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