On August 6, 2026, Hiroshima held its Peace Memorial Ceremony marking 81 years since the atomic bombing, with a record 121 countries and regions represented. Yet roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads still exist, the U.S.-Russia New START treaty has expired without a successor, and the NPT review conference has failed three times running. As the diverging fates of Ukraine and North Korea spread the belief that nuclear weapons are the ultimate insurance policy, this video asks three questions: why are arsenals growing again, has deterrence actually prevented war, and what can Japan — the only country ever attacked with nuclear weapons — actually do? Together with how Reddit debated both the bombing and modern deterrence.
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This program is produced with synthesized narration (Voice: Google Cloud Text-to-Speech (Chirp 3: HD)).
