On Sunday, January 26, 2025, Robin des Bois joined Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese association awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize representing the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Ile Longue nuclear ballistic missile submarine base, 10 km as the crow flies from the centre of Brest urban area (Department of Finistère, Brittany), which has a population of over 200,000.
The demonstration organised by the Mouvement de la Paix (Peace Movement) and the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) brought together 200 people, in particular representatives of Greenpeace, Sortir du Nucléaire Cornouaille (Out of Nuclear Cornouaille), the Collectif finistérien pour l’interdiction des armes nucléaires (Finisterian Collective for the Ban on Nuclear Weapons), and Brest MP Pierre-Yves Cadalen.
200 is not a lot, but we represented 1.7 billion people living in the 73 countries that have now signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
In the middle :”We don’t want any more atomic bombs in Brittany, or anywhere else in the world! They are illegal, expensive and dangerous”
On the right : “For the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”
At the bottom : “We sing for you, Friends of Hiroshima”
Top left : “A world without nuclear weapons”
Top : “We don’t want any more atomic bombs in Brittany, or anywhere else in the world!, They are illegal, expensive and dangerous”
For the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The nuclear arsenal held by the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan and Israel is enough to burn, dislocate, shred, kill several times humanity and biodiversity, and poison the world’s oceans and atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years. None of these countries has signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
France, the United Kingdom and the United States even issued a joint statement on July 7, 2017 radically opposed to the Treaty. “France, the United Kingdom and the United States have not taken part in the negotiation of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. We do not intend to sign, ratify or ever become party to it...”
Nuclear test in French Polynesia, circa 1970. Photo CEA/Archives Robin des Bois
Access to the list of countries that have signed and ratified the Treaty.
Links to our press releases on the subject:
“2017 : The Bastille Day is nuclear”, July 14, 2017
“2017 : The Bastille Day is nuclear”, October 6, 2017
“The Atomic cartel on the defensive”, December 7, 2017
“Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Nada !”, January 22, 2021
“White flag on nuclear sites”, February 28, 2022
