“It is our responsibility to ensure that something like this never happens again”

This year the atomic bombing on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are for the 80th time. The SPÖ commemorates the over a hundred thousand fatalities and the countless people who died of consequential damage or still suffer. SPÖ chairman, vice-chancellor Andreas Babler today, Tuesday, emphasizes to the SPÖ press service: “Since 1945 there can only be one answer: never again! Never again atomic destruction, never forgot! We are all responsible to ensure that something like this never happens again.” But 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic threat was not less. Worldwide conflicts fuel fears from a new use of nuclear weapons. “Since the terrible war of aggression in Russia on Ukraine, this danger has not been as present as it has been for decades. Especially today – at a time of new geopolitical tensions and global uncertainty – is the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of depressing topicality. War always means immeasurable suffering. Every sacrifice of a war, at that time, must be a warning to us with full strength for peace. It is our international responsibility not to look away, ”said Babler, who wants to put political dialogue, diplomacy and compromises in the foreground. “The nuclear weapons-free world can no longer be a declaration of intent, but must finally become a reality,” said SPÖ federal manager Klaus RASHEIM. The existence of these weapons alone is a threat to humanity and the planet. ****

“It is our duty to get involved in a peaceful and nuclear weapons -free world and to stand up against weapons of mass destruction,” said Rare. The number of armed conflicts has increased steadily in the past decades “and there are more than 12,000 atomic explosive heads that are unused with the use of which is openly threatened,” said Disarm, the disarmament and peaceful conflict resolution as a political mandate.

Many thanks to the Vienna Peace Movement and the Hiroshima Group Vienna for their commitment to forgetting and for a peaceful world without atomic threat. (Conclusion) BJ/MB