A VIGIL is being held in Keighley next week.
The event, in Town Hall Square on Thursday (Aug 6), will mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The 8am to 9am vigil will include songs, words and a period of silent reflection.
Sylvia Boyes, for the organisers, said: "The bombs killed hundreds of thousands directly and then as time passed many more died from radiation-associated illnesses.
"While the necessity of those events in 1945 can be argued and discussed, the continued possession and deployment of thousands of nuclear bombs must be seen as an intolerable threat to all humanity and all life on earth.
"Whether a nuclear holocaust is initiated by accident, miscalculation or madness, the resulting radioactive cloud will know no boundaries.
"All the nuclear weapons states are in the process of updating and renewing their arsenals while civic society around the world is calling for nuclear disarmament.
"The human cost of nuclear weapons is astronomical to our health, environment, ethics and democracy, to our prospects for global peace and to our confidence in human survival."
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