International Day Against Nuclear Tests

Humanity has always solved its problems by demonstrating strength Whoever has the stronger weapon is right The one who knows more in terms of developing new weapons, has great capabilities, and has achieved great results in this regard, is the one in charge This kind of thinking is inherently wrong and will lead humanity to decline The powers that be began to understand this already in the middle of the last century Following the tragedy in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the islands of Honshu and Kyushu respectively Nuclear tests were carried out all over the world However, a policy against them began to be pursued relatively recently Only then when people realized the harmfulness of such an assertion of dominance Thus, in Kazakhstan, at the second largest nuclear weapons testing site in the world - in Semipalatinsk, more than 480 tests were carried out from 1949 to 1989 The result of these tests was a great aggravation of the oncological situation in the east of Kazakhstan, an increase in pathological diseases of newborns and a decrease in the overall life expectancy of people in this region President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev sharply raised the issue of terminating the activities of the landfill He was supported by the world community Today is the international day of action aimed at abandoning nuclear testing - this is an important day in the life of many countries On this day, propaganda events are carried out that equip the inhabitants of the planet with knowledge August 29 was established as the international day against nuclear weapons by the UN General Assembly in 2009 Today, almost the entire southern hemisphere has renounced nuclear weapons, thereby becoming a zone free of such weapons This was due to the actions of the treaties that were concluded at one time or another in this territory: the Treaty of Rarotonga, the Treaty of Bangkok, the Treaty of Tlatelococa and the Treaty of Pelindaba Every year more and more states understand the importance of the mission to save peace on Earth and enter into agreements on the non-use of nuclear weapons against each other After all, with the use of this type of weapon, civilians suffer not only at the time of the armed conflict, but also for many decades after it