Rudd laid a wreath in commemoration of the 140,000 victims of the World War II U.S. nuclear attack on the Japanese city on August 6, 1945. A second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later, killing a further 80,000 people. Thousands more died over the ensuing years from radiation exposure.
The announcement to form the Nuclear Non-Proliferations and Disarmament Commission, was made by Rudd on June 9 in Kyoto. The Commission will be chaired by former Labor foreign minister, Gareth Evans. Rudd says that the current weapons control regime is not working and hopes this new initiative will reinvigorate the world's sense of urgency on nuclear weapons.
Australia is already signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since 1970, along with 189 other nations. Five members of the treaty possess nuclear weapons. India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea are not signatories. Indian and Pakistan have openly tested nuclear weapons, while Israel has done so secretly. North Korea has recently capitulated to international pressure to reveal their nuclear capabilities and to cease weapons development.
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