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24 November 2019 "Never again!": This is the Pope's strong appeal to Hiroshima, to the place where the atomic bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945. "In a single plea, open to God and to all men and women of good will, on behalf of all the victims of bombings, atomic experiments and all conflicts, let us raise a cry together:" Never again war, but more the roar of arms, never so much suffering! Let peace come into our day, into our world ".The use of the atomic bomb for war is a crime
"With conviction I would like to reiterate that the use of atomic energy for war purposes is, today more than ever, a crime, not only against man and his dignity, but against any possibility of future in our common home". The Pope said this at the Hiroshima peace meeting. "The use of atomic energy for war purposes is immoral. We will be judged for this. The new generations will stand up as judges of our defeat if we have spoken of peace but we have not realized it with our actions among the peoples of the earth ".
I will be the voice of the unheard, weapons do not guarantee peace
The Pope, having arrived in Hiroshima, the Japanese city that has experienced the devastation of the atomic bomb, makes himself "the voice of those whose voices are not heard and who look with anxiety and anxiety at the growing tensions that cross our time, the unacceptable inequalities and injustices that threaten human coexistence, the serious incapacity to take care of our common home, the continuous and spasmodic use of arms, as if these could guarantee a peaceful future ". These are his words in the meeting for peace, in the presence also of some survivors.
Immoral not only use but also atomic possession
Not only the use but also the "possession" of the atomic "is immoral". The Pope said this by recalling: "I already said it two years ago", thus recalling the historic speech at the Vatican for the 2017 nuclear disarmament at the ongoing peace meeting in Hiroshima.