Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2026: Have we learned nothing from Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Posted: 10th August 2026
We have once again mourned the madness and immorality of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. But have our leaders learned anything, asks Lawrence Wittner, as we watch the nine nuclear-armed nations increasing their arsenals.
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The nine nuclear powers, possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all busily upgrading and expanding their nuclear weapons arsenals at an accelerated pace. Nuclear weapons spending rose to an all-time high of $119 billion in 2025 ― a 19 percent increase over the preceding year. Half of that spending was by the US, which is embarked on a $1.7 trillion, decades-long nuclear weapons buildup. What we need most urgently is the advent of new, less hawkish rulers, a disarmament movement revival, or both, Wittner writes. Otherwise, a nuclear war seems likely. READ MORE
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