The World’s Ongoing Conflicts Underline Nuclear and Non-Nuclear States By Thalif Deen Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/01/the-worlds-ongoing-conflicts-underline-nuclear-and-non-nuclear-states/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How_Extreme_Weather_is_Testing_Tanzanias_Billion_Electric_Railway_Dream_Big_NatureBased_Finance_Turn On the 80th anniversary, which was commemorated in August 2025, Izumi Nakamitsu, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, said: “We remember those who perished. We stand with the families who carry their memory,” as she delivered the UN Secretary-General's message. She paid tribute to the hibakusha – the term for those who survived Hiroshima and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki – “whose voices have become a moral force for peace. While their numbers grow smaller each year, their testimony — and their eternal message of peace — will never leave us,” she said. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.