To the editor: As Mari Yamaguchi identified on this article, the dangers of nuclear battle stay excessive, with greater than 12,000 nuclear weapons stockpiled globally, some many instances extra highly effective than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (“On Nagasaki anniversary, mayor warns that nuclear ‘deterrence’ only increases risk,” Aug. 9). Because the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing survivors, generally known as hibakusha, age, preserving their reminiscences has taken on new urgency. We pray that there’ll at all times be somebody to inform their story.
Whereas allegedly trying to forestall different international locations from creating nuclear weapons, the USA is at the moment finishing up the costliest growth of our nuclear weapons complicated in historical past, together with making hundreds of new plutonium bomb cores for brand spanking new nuclear weapons. These plans for brand spanking new nuclear weapons gas a nuclear arms race that we will already see brewing internationally. The Union of Concerned Scientists urges us to inform Congress to cease this pointless, costly and probably harmful growth of U.S. nuclear weapons.
Diane Smith, Los Angeles
