On August 6, 1945, a nuclear bomb, built and deployed by the United States, detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. 3 days later, a second, deadlier nuclear bomb, also built and deployed by the United States, detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.
The two attacks led to the deaths of over 214,000 Japanese people, and since then, the United States has remained the only nation on Earth to ever deploy nuclear weapons against another nation.
Yet it is the same United States which today lectures the world about “nuclear safety” and “nuclear proliferation”, while waging a forever war against all nations in the Global South that dare to pursue nuclear power.
In this 2025 televised exchange on CNN with an imperialist pundit of little repute, US-born political commentator Joy Reid aptly points out that the United States, for all its pretences, has always been the world’s number one aggressor.
An aggressor that no nation in the Global South which values its sovereignty and survival has any business taking instructions from.
Under the Western-imposed African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, the nations of Africa are effectively barred from nuclear power. But with nations like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso pointing a different way for the continent, and other nations slowly reading the room, this shackle may not be on for much longer.
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