The terror of Hiroshima: Sue Wareham in Online Opinion

MAPW President Sue Wareham has marked Hiroshima Day with a piece in Online Opinion, reminding readers that  the Hiroshima bomb was a very small weapon by today’s standards, and yet an estimated 90,000 people died immediately it fell on the Japanese city.

Many tens of thousands more died slowly of burns, multiple injuries, radiation sickness or, later, cancer.

"For nearly six and a half decades", Sue writes, "the survivors’ message has been clear: Hiroshima never again. And yet not only do these worst of all weapons of terror remain, but they are now held by nine nations. One of the reasons is in our own backyard - uranium."