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American’s Chernobyl via Cited

Posted on 2020/08/05 by nfield

SEASON 01: EPISODE 08 (PART 1 OF 2) America’s Chernobyl 00:00:0000:50:49AMERICA’S CHERNOBYLRewind Play Forward    Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of southeastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The … Continue reading →

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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Erika Hayasaki for Narratively On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war I keep a … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima at 75: A Painful Legacy Tempered by Hope and a Treaty via The Diplomat

Posted on 2020/08/04 by nfield

[…] That morning, August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb for only the second time. Three weeks earlier the Trinity test, conducted in New Mexico, marked the first successful detonation of a nuclear device. The second detonation was … Continue reading →

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NC nuclear plant in path of Hurricane Isaias loses power to unit, activates safety system via Fox Business

Posted on 2020/08/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tropical Storm Isaias made landfall as a hurricane on North Carolina’s coast By Evie Fordham A North Carolina nuclear power plant in the path of Tropical Storm Isaias reported an “unusual event due to a loss of offsite power” that led its safety systems to … Continue reading →

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“Fukushima Ain’t Got Time for Olympic Games” via Fairwinds

Posted on 2020/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Foreword By Maggie Gundersen […] Prologue & Personal Essay By Norma Field A TV set was introduced into our household in 1957. That’s how I date my first encounter with the atomic bomb—not the mushroom cloud, but a grainy black-and-white … Continue reading →

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Commentary: The mayor of Nagasaki’s peace message to Illinois and the world via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2020/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Seventy-five years ago, on Aug. 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb following Hiroshima was detonated over our city, Nagasaki, Japan. The city was left in smoldering ruin by the blast wave and ferocious heat, and more than 150,000 people were … Continue reading →

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#75 years of resilence via #stillhere

Posted on 2020/08/03 by nfield

The hibakusha, or those who survived the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are the best known nuclear survivors, but they are not the only ones. Downwinders grew up near America’s nuclear testing and production sites in places like Utah, … Continue reading →

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U.A.E. Becomes First Arab Nation to Open a Nuclear Power Plant via The New York Times

Posted on 2020/08/03 by nfield

The launch is raising concerns about the growing number of nuclear programs in the volatile Middle East. By Vivian Yee BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to open a nuclear power plant on Saturday, raising … Continue reading →

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The Bomb Was Never a One-Way Affair: Bringing Together Japanese and American Sufferers (webinar)

Posted on 2020/08/02 by nfield

Thursday, August 6, 8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. To register, please contact Yuki Miyamoto at ymiyamot@depaul.edu

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75th Anniversary Commemoration of Hiroshima & Nagasaki via Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (Temple University Japan Campus)

Posted on 2020/07/31 by nfield

ICAS Webinar (Online) “Managing Nuclear Memory: The Journey from Hiroshima to Fukushima” Date/Time:  August 7  10:00am  Chicago (CT)  |  August 8  12:00am  Tokyo (JST) Webinar access link:   https://temple.zoom.us/j/8166385428M | Meeting ID: 816 638 5428 Moderator:  Kyle Cleveland, ICAS Co-Director Watch video here. For … Continue reading →

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