Overview

• Tens of thousands, including delegations from 120 countries, observed the 8:15 AM moment of silence and heard Mayor Kazumi Matsui urge younger generations to continue the fight against nuclear weapons.
• Survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo cautioned that humanity faces a greater nuclear threat today than at any point since 1945.
• Russia’s formal withdrawal from the INF treaty this week, following the US exit in 2019, has removed limits on short- and medium-range missile deployments.
• President Trump has redeployed nuclear submarines closer to Russian waters and Japan is expanding its military capabilities after decades of postwar pacifism.
• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight to reflect accelerating modernization of global nuclear arsenals.