Blanár: Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a warning, the world should reduce the number of nuclear weapons

The global objective must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not nuclear escalation. On the occasion of the World Day for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the head of Slovak diplomacy Juraj Blanár (Smer) stated this on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs (MFEA) of the Slovak Republic.

Blanár reminded that on this day the world commemorates the tragic events of August 6, 1945, which became Hiroshima Day, when more than 70 thousand people died after an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He added that three days later an atomic bomb also fell on the city of Nagasaki and claimed another more than 40 thousand victims.

“The consequences of these attacks are still a warning to the whole world that the use of nuclear weapons has catastrophic consequences and the global objective must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not nuclear escalation,” Blanár emphasized.

He emphasized that Slovakia supports the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and is a signatory of the main treaties limiting nuclear weapons, such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The result of various activities of these institutions is the radical reduction of the number of nuclear tests carried out worldwide or the successful operation of the International Monitoring System for detecting any signs of a possible nuclear test.

“Today, 300 special monitoring stations and laboratories cover the entire Earth, whose results help, for example, in warnings against tsunamis. The use of nuclear energy will provide us with a future only if we direct it to peaceful purposes – in medicine, energy, or science and research,” minister Blanár stated. (August 6)