Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Abstract

Part 1 The past - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the bombings and their aftermath: the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Frank Barnaby Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the beginning of the nuclear age, Kazuyo Yamane the acquisition of nuclear weapons, Frank Barnaby. Part 2 The present - nuclear threats today: the current status of the nuclear arms race, Paul Rogers 50 years after Nagasaki - Japan as plutonium superpower, Shaun Burnie current attitudes to the atomic bombings in Japan, Kazuyo Yamane illegal trafficking in nuclear fissile materials - likely customer and suppliers, Jasjit Singh. Part 3 The future - ways out of the nuclear arms race: do nuclear weapons have any rational utility? Frank Barnaby the end of the beginning - progress towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, Victor Sidel nuclear weapons - the legality issue, Rob Green. Part 4 The goal - a nuclear weapons-free world: a nuclear-weapon-free world - the essential lesson of Hiroshima, Joseph Rotblat. Appendix: the global nuclear arsenals - beginning of 1995, Frank Barnaby.