Alyn Ware is Peace and Disarmament program Director for the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Laureate in 2009.
Ruins of Nagasaki about 800 metres from the hypocenter in mid-October 1945. Lessons of Nagasaki survivors should motivate the world to eliminate all nuclear weapons – UN chief. Credit: UN Photo/Shigeo Hayashi
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan 21 2021 (IPS) - Many of us around the world breathed a sigh of relief yesterday (Jan 20) as the ‘nuclear football’ (the briefcase with nuclear weapons codes and communication links for the President to launch a nuclear attack) was passed from Mr Trump to President Biden, as the new president was inaugurated.