{"id":6275,"date":"2019-08-08T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/strategies-for-nuclear-weapons-and-waste"},"modified":"2019-08-08T01:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:59:55","slug":"strategies-for-nuclear-weapons-and-waste-letters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6275","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for nuclear weapons and waste | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes <strong>Catherine West MP. <\/strong>It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says <strong>Professor Neil Hyatt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we mark the 74th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is at a dangerous juncture (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/01\/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-treaties-how-we-started-worrying-again\" title=\"\">Editorial<\/a>, 2 August). Abandonment of the INF treaty alongside President Trump\u2019s reckless withdrawal of the US from the Iran nuclear deal only increases the likelihood of a devastating nuclear arms race. It suggests nothing has been learned from the horror of those attacks 74 years ago, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and many more blighted.<\/p>\n<p>While nuclear bombs exist in our world there is always the risk of another Hiroshima or another Nagasaki. It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons and that the UK government refuses any requests from the US to host intermediate range missiles. Our goal must be a world free of nuclear weapons, not a dangerous and destructive escalation.<br \/><strong>Catherine West MP<\/strong><br \/><em>Hornsey &amp; Wood Green<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/strategies-for-nuclear-weapons-and-waste\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West MP. It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says Professor Neil HyattAs we mark the 74th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,493,65,88,568,441,220,47,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-environment","category-japan","category-nuclear-waste","category-nuclear-weapons","category-second-world-war","category-us-news","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}