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Seventy years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Reflections on the consequences of nuclear detonation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2015

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Abstract

In this interview, conducted after their visit to Hiroshima, President Peter Maurer and President Tadateru Konoe reflect on the human cost of nuclear weapons and present the perspective of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on the Conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo, Nayarit, Mexico and Vienna, and the challenges ahead for nuclear disarmament.

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Voices and perspectives: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 97 , Issue 899: The human cost of nuclear weapons , September 2015 , pp. 553 - 562
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Copyright © icrc 2015 

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References

1 This discussion was conducted by Vincent Bernard, Editor-in-Chief of the Review, in Tokyo on 12 February 2015. President Maurer and President Konoe visited Hiroshima on 11 February 2015. President Konoe visited Nagasaki on 12 February 2015, accompanied by an ICRC delegation.

2 For an account by ICRC field delegate Dr Marcel Junod, the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima after the bombing, see Junod, Marcel, “The Hiroshima Disaster”, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 22, No. 230, 1982Google Scholar; Junod, Marcel, “The Hiroshima Disaster (II)”, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 22, No. 231, 1982Google Scholar.

3 Editor's note (all subsequent notes are from the editor): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation), and the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (National Societies) of each country together form the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (Movement).

4 Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Resolution 1: Working Towards the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 November 2011, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/resolution/council-delegates-resolution-1-2011.htm.

5 See the survivors' testimony featured in the “Voices and Perspectives” section of this edition of the Review.

6 See, for example, ICRC, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on Human Health, Information Note 1, ICRC, Geneva, February 2013, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/legal-fact-sheet/03-19-nuclear-weapons-human-health-1-4132.htm; ICRC, Climate Effects of Nuclear War and Implications for Global Food Production, Information Note 2, ICRC, Geneva, February 2013, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/legal-fact-sheet/03-19-nuclear-weapons-global-food-production-2-4132.htm.

7 Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Resolution: Working Towards the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Four-Year Action Plan, November 2013, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/red-cross-crescent-movement/council-delegates-2013/cod13-r1-nuclear-weapons-adopted-eng.pdf.

8 See Coupland, Robin and Loye, Dominique, “International Assistance for Victims of Use of Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical Weapons: Time for a Reality Check?”, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 91, No. 874, 2009CrossRefGoogle Scholar, available at: www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/interview/2013/03-04-nuclear-weapons-humanitarian-assistance.htm.

9 See UN SC Res. 1887, 24 September 2009.