Hiroshima day Time again to think about lasting peace movement

On the 9th of August, 1945 the residents of the small Japanese town of Nagasaki had had to go through the traumatic experience of atomic devastations and deaths. They were the second victims of atom bomb dropped by the US imperialists. Thus Nagasaki became history along with Hiroshima, the first and only other town in the world to bear the brunt of atomic explosion. The irony lay in the fact that those bombs were not necessary to win the war the fate of which was virtually sealed against the axis powers by that time. Those bombs were, in reality, announcement of the coming to the scene of the new leader of the capitalist world, the US imperialism. This new leader had other ideas which opened petals as days went by. The US ambition to be the controller of the world found reflection in their strategy and tactics both in their national and foreign policies. Gradually atomic weapons gave way to nuclear weapons increasing in the process the destructive powers of those weapons to an unprecedented and fantastic level. The World stood at the brink of a nuclear holocaust. Such a dreadful possibility forced all peace loving peoples throughout the World to come together under the banner of World Peace movement led by the erstwhile Soviet Union in demand of a nuclear weapon-free world. Demands were raised for the destruction of the existing piles of nuclear arms as well as for banning of production of such weapons for all time to come. Every year peace-loving peoples of Japan and of other countries began observing August 6 as Hiroshima day in memory of those millions who were killed as also those who were maimed for life and for generations. While all these were going on, the Japanese ruling classes were stealthily assisting the us administration in the research and development of nuclear weapons. A document recently made public by the US administration revealed the startling fact that such cooperation was going on between the two governments since 1960. This certainly shows beyond doubt the anti-people and anti-peace character of the capitalist class. The Non-Aligned movement had, from the very beginning, an anti-imperialist character chiefly because most of the member-states had had to pass through a colonial past. The joining of the NAM in the Peace movement brought a change in the composition and character of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Even the Security Council, though dominated by the Western powers, was forced to tone down the aggressive postures of the warmongers.

The nuclear weapons piled by USA and other powers remain as they were. With the present rulers of Russia playing to the tune set by the USA, the power of nuclear destructions in the hands of the Western camp has increased further. It is very clear that USA does not want any other non-nuclear state to become nuclear and it is intent upon banning all future nuclear test explosions. It is well known that the Western powers have completed their experimental tests and have developed technologies with the help of which those powers may go on developing new nuclear weapons without resorting to external tests. In other words, the nuclear powered states would not destroy the nuclear arsenal and would develop, whenever necessary, new and improved versions of the killer weapons. But they would compel other states to remain non-nuclear so that the latter states would always regard the nuclear powers as superiors. All these in the name of humanism and world peace! What a farce it is.