The Pressing Case for a Nuclear Weapons Ban

Black and white image of the large cloud of smoke that formed over Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.

Contents This article contains the following sections: Global Security Effects of Detonation Production and Testing Nuclear Weapons Ban Links and Sources Earlier this month, we commemorated the devastating events which occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 — the detonation of nuclear bombs on August 6 and 9 that instantly or eventually killed hundreds of thousands of […]