{"id":1142,"date":"2025-08-08T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:29:25","slug":"la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"La France a-t-elle oubli\u00e9 Hiroshima et Nagasaki ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>English below<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tribune des organisations membres de la campagne ICAN France (dont le MIR-France) parue dans <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> du 4 ao\u00fbt 2025<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>L\u2019id\u00e9e port\u00e9e par Emmanuel Macron d\u2019europ\u00e9aniser la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire fran\u00e7aise s\u2019inscrit dans une fuite en avant mortif\u00e8re qui gagne dangereusement le monde, s\u2019alarment des ONG, au moment o\u00f9 l\u2019on comm\u00e9more l\u2019horreur des 6 et 9 ao\u00fbt 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019id\u00e9e port\u00e9e par Emmanuel Macron d\u2019europ\u00e9aniser la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire fran\u00e7aise s\u2019inscrit dans une fuite en avant mortif\u00e8re qui gagne dangereusement le monde, s\u2019alarment des ONG, au moment o\u00f9 l\u2019on comm\u00e9more l\u2019horreur des 6 et 9 ao\u00fbt 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Selon le Comit\u00e9 international de la Croix-Rouge, 220 000 personnes ont p\u00e9ri \u00e0 Hiroshima et Nagasaki entre les et 9 ao\u00fbt et la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1945. Parmi elles, pr\u00e8s de 38 000 enfants. Celles qui ont surv\u00e9cu, les <em>hibakusha<\/em>, sont la m\u00e9moire vivante de l\u2019horreur nucl\u00e9aire. Elles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 marqu\u00e9es chaque jour de leur existence dans leur chair et leur esprit : maladies radio-induites, exclusion sociale, stress post-traumatique, fausses couches\u2026 Leurs descendants sont \u00e9galement impact\u00e9s par ces explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Visiter Hiroshima ou Nagasaki bouleverse quiconque se rend sur les lieux de m\u00e9moire. Comment expliquer alors qu\u2019Emmanuel Macron ait pu \u00e9crire, en 2023, sur le livre d\u2019or du Mus\u00e9e de la paix d\u2019Hiroshima, \u00e0 la suite de la r\u00e9union du G7, ces mots de compassion emprunt\u00e9s \u00e0 Albert Camus, que \u00ab\u00a0la paix est le seul combat qui m\u00e9rite d\u2019\u00eatre men\u00e9\u00bb, et marteler, d\u2019un ton martial, ce 13 juillet lors d\u2019un discours aux arm\u00e9es : \u00ab Pour \u00eatre libre dans ce monde, il faut \u00eatre craint. Pour \u00eatre craint, il faut \u00eatre puissant\u00a0\u00bb ?<\/p>\n<p>En quelques secondes, sa compassion<\/p>\n<p>pour les victimes s\u2019est effac\u00e9e au profit de l\u2019affirmation p\u00e9remptoire d\u2019une puissance qui repose sur la p\u00e9rennisation d\u2019un arsenal nucl\u00e9aire et sur l\u2019exercice permanent de la menace d\u2019emploi de ces armes de destruction massive. Au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019\u00e9thique, ces paroles heurtent les fondements m\u00eames du droit international. Elles contredisent la Charte des Nations unies, qui appelle \u00e0 \u00abmaintenir la paix\u00bb, \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0[s\u2019abstenir] de recourir \u00e0 la menace ou \u00e0 l\u2019emploi de la force\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 agir pour la r\u00e9duction des armements. Elles pi\u00e9tinent les principes de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 collective, de coop\u00e9ration internationale, d\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 souveraine entre les peuples.<\/p>\n<p>Les comm\u00e9morations du 6 et du 9 ao\u00fbt n\u2019ont qu\u2019un seul but : rappeler l\u2019impensable pour emp\u00eacher qu\u2019il ne se reproduise. Pourtant, les signaux sont inqui\u00e9tants. Si l\u2019arme nucl\u00e9aire n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 directement utilis\u00e9e au cours d\u2019une guerre depuis 1945, le tabou autour de son emploi se fissure. Les discours encourageant \u00e0 plus d\u2019armes nucl\u00e9aires comme syst\u00e8mes de protection (par exemple du Premier ministre belge, De Wever, et du pr\u00e9sident polonais, Duda) et les actes prolif\u00e9rants (accroissements des arsenaux britanniques et chinois, renforcement de la composante nucl\u00e9aire a\u00e9rienne de l\u2019Inde par la vente de Rafales), ajout\u00e9s aux menaces explicites (Russie, Cor\u00e9e du Nord) font que sa fin devient possible.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pr\u00e9sident veut \u00e9tendre l\u2019ombre de la dissuasion de la France \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle europ\u00e9enne. Faire peur \u00e0 Poutine, compenser le retrait am\u00e9ricain, garantir la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du continent\u2026 Ce raisonnement, aux allures de strat\u00e9gie, n\u2019est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 qu\u2019une fuite en avant. Il alimente une spirale d\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9, o\u00f9 chaque mouvement provoque une r\u00e9action, o\u00f9 la prolif\u00e9ration nucl\u00e9aire est in\u00e9vitable.<\/p>\n<p>Confront\u00e9e \u00e0 cette logique de pr\u00e9paration au suicide collectif, une majorit\u00e9 croissante d\u2019Etats, y compris europ\u00e9ens, membres ou signataires du Trait\u00e9 sur l\u2019interdiction des armes nucl\u00e9aires (TIAN), contestent aujourd\u2019hui frontalement cette vision du monde fond\u00e9e sur la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire.<\/p>\n<p>Leur attitude repose en premier lieu sur une logique de renforcement de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 collective, et non sur la na\u00efvet\u00e9 ou l\u2019ang\u00e9lisme. Ils veulent, eux aussi, prot\u00e9ger leurs \u00ab\u00a0int\u00e9r\u00eats vitaux\u00a0\u00bb menac\u00e9s en permanence par les cons\u00e9quences potentielles d\u2019un emploi d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9, involontaire, accidentel ou d\u00fb a une erreur de calcul d\u2019armes nucl\u00e9aires. Ils savent qu\u2019une guerre nucl\u00e9aire au c\u0153ur de l\u2019Europe, ou dans le sud asiatique, aura des cons\u00e9quences tant humanitaires qu\u2019\u00e9conomiques ou climatiques, quel que soit l\u2019emplacement g\u00e9ographique de leur Etat.<\/p>\n<p>Deuxi\u00e8mement, ces Etats rappellent que la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire est une th\u00e9orie inv\u00e9rifiable, qui repose sur la chance et une perception de la rationalit\u00e9 des adversaires, or celle-ci est obligatoirement diff\u00e9rente pour chacun des protagonistes. Lors de la troisi\u00e8me r\u00e9union du TIAN, en mars 2025, ils ont d\u00e9clar\u00e9 sans ambigu\u00eft\u00e9 : \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019affirmation selon laquelle la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire a d\u00e9j\u00e0 permis d\u2019\u00e9viter une guerre a\u2000 grande \u00e9chelle et un conflit nucl\u00e9aire [est] impossible a\u2000 prouver de mani\u00e8re concluante, et il n\u2019existe aucune certitude quant \u00e0 son efficacit\u00e9 future.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Enfin, les gouvernements engag\u00e9s dans le TIAN sont lucides : la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire n\u2019est pas la solution, elle est le probl\u00e8me. Elle entretient une logique d\u2019affrontement, renforce la course aux armements (nucl\u00e9aires comme conventionnels), fragilise les trait\u00e9s et l\u00e9gitime enfin l\u2019exercice de la menace comme mode de relation entre Etats. L\u2019id\u00e9e d\u2019europ\u00e9aniser la dissuasion fran\u00e7aise est un engrenage dangereux. Elle provoquera des r\u00e9actions russes, nourrira les ambitions d\u2019autres puissances nucl\u00e9aires ou du seuil, et alimentera la fin du r\u00e9gime de non-prolif\u00e9ration nucl\u00e9aire.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019appel d\u2019Albert Camus le 8 ao\u00fbt 1945, deux jours apr\u00e8s Hiroshima, est plus que jamais d\u2019actualit\u00e9 : \u00ab\u00a0Devant les perspectives terrifiantes qui s\u2019ouvrent \u00e0 l\u2019humanit\u00e9, nous apercevons encore mieux que la paix est le seul combat qui vaille d\u2019\u00eatre men\u00e9. Ce n\u2019est plus une pri\u00e8re, mais un ordre qui doit monter des peuples vers les gouvernements, l\u2019ordre de choisir d\u00e9finitivement entre l\u2019enfer et la raison.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Premi\u00e8res organisations membres de ICAN France signataires :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace France,<\/p>\n<p>Observatoire des armements,<\/p>\n<p>Initiatives pour le d\u00e9sarmement nucl\u00e9aire,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement national de lutte pour l\u2019environnement,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement pour une alternative Non-violente,<\/p>\n<p>Pugwash- France,<\/p>\n<p>Union europ\u00e9enne de la paix,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement de la paix,<\/p>\n<p>Collectif Bourgogne-Franche-Comt\u00e9 pour l\u2019abolition des armes nucl\u00e9aires,<\/p>\n<p>Abolition des armes nucl\u00e9aires \u2013 Maison de vigilance,<\/p>\n<p>Collectif finist\u00e9rien pour l\u2019interdiction des armes nucl\u00e9aires,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l\u2019amiti\u00e9 entre les peuples,<\/p>\n<p>Agir pour le d\u00e9sarmement nucl\u00e9aire Bourgogne-Franche- Comt\u00e9, Feyzin-Europe,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement international de la R\u00e9conciliation France,<\/p>\n<p>Union d\u00e9mocratique bretonne,<\/p>\n<p>Mouvement Utopia,<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9seau Sortir du nucl\u00e9aire.<\/p>\n<p>Cet article est paru dans Lib\u00e9ration (site web) :\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/idees-et-debats\/tribunes\/la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki-20250804_VICHHCYBTRH3JHSHP3Y5A6X2IE\/\">https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/idees-et-debats\/tribunes\/la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki-20250804_VICHHCYBTRH3JHSHP3Y5A6X2IE\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Has France forgotten Hiroshima and Nagasaki?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>member organizations of the ICAN France campaign published in <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> on 4 August 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s idea of Europeanizing France&rsquo;s nuclear deterrent is part of a deadly rush forward that is dangerously spreading across the world, NGOs warn, as we commemorate the horror of August 6 and 9, 1945. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 220,000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki between August 6 and 9 and the end of 1945. Among them were nearly 38,000 children. Those who survived, the <em>hibakusha<\/em>, are the living memory of nuclear horror. They have been marked every day of their lives in their flesh and spirit: radiation-induced diseases, social exclusion, post-traumatic stress, miscarriages&#8230; Their descendants are also affected by these explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting Hiroshima or Nagasaki is a deeply moving experience for anyone who goes to these places of remembrance. How, then, can we explain that Emmanuel Macron was able to write, in 2023, in the guest book of the Hiroshima Peace Museum, following the G7 meeting, these words of compassion borrowed from Albert Camus, that \u00ab\u00a0<em>peace is the only fight worth fighting\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, and then hammer home, in a martial tone, on July 13 during a speech to the armed forces: \u201c<em>To be free in this world, you must be feared. To be feared, you must be powerful<\/em>\u201d? In a matter of seconds, his compassion for the victims gave way to the peremptory assertion of a power based on the perpetuation of a nuclear arsenal and the permanent threat of the use of these weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond ethics, these words strike at the very foundations of international law. They contradict the United Nations Charter, which calls for \u00ab\u00a0<em>maintaining peace\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, \u201c<em>refraining from the threat or use of force<\/em>,\u201d and acting to reduce armaments. They trample on the principles of collective security, international cooperation, and sovereign equality among peoples.<\/p>\n<p>The commemorations on August 6 and 9 have only one purpose: to remember the unthinkable in order to prevent it from happening again. Yet the signs are worrying. Although nuclear weapons have not been used directly in war since 1945, the taboo surrounding their use is cracking. Discourse encouraging more nuclear weapons as a means of protection (for example, by Belgian Prime Minister De Wever and Polish President Duda) and actions Hiroshima, Japan, about a month after the US nuclear bombing of August 6, 1945) or proliferating (increases in British and Chinese arsenals, strengthening of India&rsquo;s nuclear air force through the sale of Rafale fighter jets), added to explicit threats (Russia, North Korea), make the end of this taboo possible.<\/p>\n<p>The President wants to extend the shadow of France&rsquo;s deterrence to the European level. To scare Putin, compensate for the American withdrawal, guarantee the security of the continent&#8230; This reasoning, which looks like a strategy, is in reality nothing more than a headlong rush. It fuels a spiral of insecurity, where every move provokes a reaction, where nuclear proliferation is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with this logic of preparing for collective suicide, a growing majority of states, including European ones, parties to, or signatories of, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), are now openly challenging this worldview based on nuclear deterrence. Their attitude is based primarily on a logic of strengthening collective security, not on naivety or idealism. They too want to protect their \u201c<em>vital interests<\/em>,\u201d which are constantly threatened by the potential consequences of the deliberate, unintentional, accidental, or miscalculated use of nuclear weapons. They know that a nuclear war in the heart of Europe or in South Asia will have humanitarian, economic, and climatic consequences, regardless of the geographical location of their state.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, these states point out that nuclear deterrence is an unverifiable theory, based on luck and a perception of the rationality of adversaries, which is necessarily different for each of the protagonists. At the third TPNW meeting in March 2025, they stated unequivocally: \u00ab\u00a0<em>The claim that nuclear deterrence has already prevented large-scale war and nuclear conflict [is] impossible to prove conclusively, and there is no certainty about its future effectiveness<\/em>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the governments involved in the TPNW are clear-headed: nuclear deterrence is not the solution, it is the problem. It perpetuates a logic of confrontation, reinforces the arms race (both nuclear and conventional), weakens treaties, and ultimately legitimizes the use of threats as a means of relations between states. The idea of Europeanizing French deterrence is a dangerous spiral. It will provoke Russian reactions, fuel the ambitions of other nuclear or threshold powers, and contribute to the end of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Camus&rsquo; appeal on August 8, 1945, two days after Hiroshima, is more relevant than ever: \u201c<em>Faced with the terrifying prospects opening up before humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only battle worth fighting. It is no longer a prayer, but a command that must rise from the people to their governments, the command to choose definitively between hell and reason<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signatures<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Link to <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>&lsquo;s website:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/idees-et-debats\/tribunes\/la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki-20250804_VICHHCYBTRH3JHSHP3Y5A6X2IE\/\">https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/idees-et-debats\/tribunes\/la-france-a-t-elle-oublie-hiroshima-et-nagasaki-20250804_VICHHCYBTRH3JHSHP3Y5A6X2IE\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 English below Tribune des organisations membres de la campagne ICAN France (dont le MIR-France) parue dans Lib\u00e9ration du 4 ao\u00fbt 2025 L\u2019id\u00e9e port\u00e9e par Emmanuel Macron d\u2019europ\u00e9aniser la dissuasion nucl\u00e9aire fran\u00e7aise s\u2019inscrit dans une fuite en avant mortif\u00e8re qui gagne dangereusement le monde, s\u2019alarment des ONG, au moment o\u00f9 l\u2019on comm\u00e9more l\u2019horreur des 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirfrance.org\/MIR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}