US unleashed the devil by stockpiling nuclear weapons: Analyst
The nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia is beyond the control of their leaders now and only their people can do something to stop it, an American political analyst says.
Allen Roland, an online columnist from California, made the comments when Press TV asked for his take on calls by US Secretary of State John Kerry to reduce the nuclear stockpiles of Washington and Moscow.
“We have unleashed the devil here and we can’t rely on our leaders to do anything; we have to do it ourselves,” Roland said on Thursday.
During a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Kerry stated that “the United States and other countries are working to move — particularly Russia and the United States with our agreement — to reduce the number of existing nuclear weapons."
Kerry made the remarks during a ceremony that commemorated the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing by the United States that took the lives of 140,000 people.
Together, the US and Russia are in possession of 90 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world, with each country possessing 7,500 and 7,260 warheads, respectively.
Roland said this must be stopped “the voices of people must demand that we must reduce these stockpiles” and if not the leaders of these countries will be voted out of their positions.
The analyst pointed to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings as a “horrific massacre” that will only change when people, and not their leaders, demand a change.
He went on to say that Japanese people were not the only victims of US nuclear weapons since at least 200,000 Americans also died from “the downwind of testing nuclear bombs in Nevada” during the 1950s and 1960s.
“The people who were directly affected by this,” and relatives of those who “just evaporated” in these attacks need to speak out.
Kerry’s call to reduce his country’s nuclear arsenal comes amid findings of a new study by the Pentagon that shows the United States will need some $1 trillion to overhaul the massive nuclear arsenal it has been stockpiling over the past 60 years.
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