Dear Supporter,

"Sixty-seven years ago today, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT.

Tens of thousands were killed by the blast and fireball that engulfed the city, and a similar number died of radiation sickness and injuries in the days and months that followed; in total 140,000 dead by 1945’s end. Three days later, Nagasaki was shattered by a plutonium bomb.

...As we remember the devastation wrought by two relatively small nuclear bombs in August 1945, we cannot afford to be complacent.... A treaty banning nuclear weapons is urgent, necessary and achievable, and negotiations on such a treaty should begin. Now."

ICAN Vice-Chair Rebecca Johnson from the article 'Preventing Another Hiroshima' - the complete article is now online here http://icanw.org/node/6119

To commemorate Hiroshima Day this year, ICAN has just completed a new booklet 'Catastrophic Humanitarian Harm' Please paste into your browser : http://icanw.org/node/6116 that examines the catastrophic effects of nuclear weapons on our health, societies and the environment.

The booklet aims to help reframe the nuclear weapons debate placing health, social and environment concerns at the centre of all discussions about nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

We hope that this booklet will both inform and help to provide you with new materials to help build the growing movement towards the abolition of nuclear weapons.

We invite you to download the booklet by clicking here or on the image above.

Kind regards,

The ICAN team
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons