Dear all,

I hope everyone is keeping well at this busy time and that Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration events are going well. We’ll have a report on CND group activities in next week’s mailing. Please find below a round up of nuclear news from this week.  

CND Weekly Digest: Friday 8 August 2025

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• ‘Children like me had to carry bodies’: Hiroshima survivors urge world not to forget 80 years on.
• Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’
• CND released a short film to mark Hiroshima Day which includes moving testimony from second-generation Hibakusha, Kyoko Gibson. You can watch on YouTube here.
• You can also read Kyoko’s testimony given at a recent CND event in Parliament on CND’s website.
• CND Vice-Presidents Caroline Lucas and Jeremy Corbyn have been representing CND in Japan. You can read articles by them published this week in The Independentand Tribune.
• Sophie had an editorial in the Morning Star while Jeremy also wrote a piece for the paper. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-more-hiroshimas-stop-nuclear-war-drive?link_id=6&can_…;
• Meanwhile, Caroline has written a letter (keep an eye out) in response to this column by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian: I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency.
• CND spokespeople gave several inteviews to British media this week, including on LBC News, BBC 5 Live, and Sky News Breakfast. You can watch the full interview with Sophie on Sky here.
• London Region CND’s Hiroshima Day event received a lot of press attention with several camera crews broadcasting their event in Tavistock Square. You can watch back a stream published by the Daily Express here.
• LETTER: What if Salisbury was hit by a nuclear bomb?
• Public opinion is split as US marks 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing. Americans are divided between support and opposition for the US decision to drop an atomic bomb during World War II.

Nukes in Britain

• BBC: Atomic weapons site safety procedures ‘improved’.

Global Nukes

• Euro News: Nuclear weapons states no longer respect ‘legal commitment to non-proliferation treaty’.
• The Economist: Nuclear nightmares are back. A grim anniversary points to fading memories and a fraying world order.

Middle East

• Al Jazeera: Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel.
• Netanyahu announces plan to take over Gaza City in further escalation. Proposal that needs to be approved by full cabinet would mean stationing troops in approximately 25% of territory

NATO / Europe

• Ukraine’s conscription crisis: Alleged abuse leads to protests, emigration.
• BBC: Why Trump-Putin talks unlikely to bring rapid end to Ukraine war.

Best,

Pádraig McCarrick

Press and Communications Officer

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament