The Wire

Today marks sixty four years since the first time a nuclear weapon was exploded. The test, in the deserts of New Mexico, was followed three weeks later by the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Many of the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project which created the bomb, including main architect J Robert Oppenheimer later were stricken by guilt over what they had created. Dr Bill Williams from the International Campaign for the Abolishment of Nuclear weapons says it is possible to actually abolish and destroy nuclear weapons and called for today’s anniversary to be a wakeup call to the governments of the world to do so.