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| Linda with husband Ian and daughter Bryony (click to enlarge) |
She is attending the ceremonies there as the representative of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament where she has been the Treasurer for 8 years. 'We thought it would be an opportunity for our kids to experience firsthand the enormity of what nuclear weapons do. So many people think they're just another weapon, one that Britain needs, without any comprehension about the absolute devastation even one atomic bomb can cause.'
Linda says:
The peace movement is very active in Japan and campaigns tirelessly for global nuclear disarmament, having experienced the utter horror that they cause. CND also campaigns for global nuclear disarmament and calls for the scrapping of Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons system.
Today, Trident is 8 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, and its madness to think we can use one. Besides the moral arguments about using weapons that are totally indiscriminate, moral arguments are also relevant to the current financial crisis where vital public services that affect people’s lives are being made when the government won’t even discuss including Trident in the strategic defence review. It’s not even as if nuclear weapons make us more secure; the argument that other countries don’t need them for their security but we do, won’t hold and nuclear proliferation and eventual use will be the outcome.
An event in Horsham to mark the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been organised by the Inter faith forum, 7.30am at the Peace Garden, Denne Road Cemetery. Those with faith and those without are all welcome.