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Anti-nuke campaigners in Britain are planning to join an international protest against nuclear weapons.

The activists, who are due to take part in a four-day fast against the UK Trident nuclear missile programme, will also mark the 70th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945 during the closing days of the World War II.

Fasting will start on Thursday August 6 and take place in Edinburgh and London to coincide with those held in France, Germany and the United States, RT reported.

Political commentator William Spring believes that possession of nuclear arms has not helped with the deterrence capacities of those powers who urge other countries to disarm while they hang on to their nukes.

The UK Trident program was announced in July 1980. Since 1998, Trident has been the only British nuclear weapon system in service. Its stated purpose is to provide “the minimum effective nuclear deterrent as the ultimate means to deter the most extreme threat.”

This year, British activists and campaigners from other countries will use the 70th anniversary of America’s nuclear bombings of Japan to highlight the enduring threat of nuclear weapons in the world and a planned parliamentary debate in the UK over whether to renew Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons programme.

On August 6, 1945, between 70,000 and 146,000 civilians died as a result of the US A-bomb, which was called “Little Boy,” and some 80,000 others were also believed to have perished in the Nagasaki nuclear attack by “Fat Man” three days later. — Presstv.