Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

The Fallout via Guernica

Posted on 2017/07/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In St. Louis, America’s nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies […] Her youngest son was napping when the phone rang. Dawn was sitting on the top bunk in his bedroom folding laundry. The man on … Continue reading →

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122 Nations Approve a Global Treaty to Ban Use of Nuclear Weapons via Democracy Now!

Posted on 2017/07/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

At the United Nations headquarters in New York, 122 countries have approved a global treaty to ban the use of nuclear weapons […] In the end, all countries with nuclear arms ended up boycotting the negotiations. The historic vote now … Continue reading →

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Atom bomb survivors in Japan welcome UN resolution on nuclear weapons via Independent

Posted on 2017/07/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

‘I have been waiting for this day for seven decades and I am overjoyed that it has finally arrived’ says Hiroshima Setsuko Thurlow A United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons has been welcomed by survivors of the deadly atom bomb attacks on Japan which ended the … Continue reading →

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A Treaty Is Reached to Ban Nuclear Arms. Now Comes the Hard Part via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/07/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

For the first time in the seven-decade effort to avert a nuclear war, a global treaty has been negotiated that proponents say would, if successful, lead to the destruction of all nuclear weapons and forever prohibit their use. Negotiators representing more than … Continue reading →

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Newly digitized footage shows Hiroshima before A-bomb via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/07/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

HIROSHIMA – The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum released online Wednesday digitally processed 16 mm film footage that shows the central area of Hiroshima about 10 years before the city was devastated by the U.S. atomic bombing. The original film is the … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Keep Quiet Anymore: Atomic Homefront via Film International

Posted on 2017/06/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] This passionate film, having its world premiere as one of the 11 Spotlight Screenings at AFI DOCS in Washington DC, is a heart breaker. Cammisa, an Oscar nominee for her 2009 documentary feature Which Way Home (dealing with child migrants) and … Continue reading →

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Radiation research foundation to apologize for studying but not treating hibakusha via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/06/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

HIROSHIMA — The chairman of a joint Japan-U.S. research organization studying the long-term effects of radiation exposure on humans is expected to apologize to hibakusha — survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — who were … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima mayor calls for nuclear weapons ban treaty in A-bomb survivors’ lifetime via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/06/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NEW YORK — Japan’s atomic bombing survivors’ “earnest wish is to witness the prohibition of nuclear weapons in their lifetime,” Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui told delegates at the second round of nuclear weapons ban treaty talks at United Nations Headquarters … Continue reading →

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‘Switzerland wanted its own atomic bomb’ via SwissInfo

Posted on 2017/06/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Rotzetter’s installation will be on show at Kunstmusem Luzernexternal link through August 20. The museum describes his work as “figurative, direct, rough, forceful. One thing they are not is beautiful. In the tradition of Bad Painting, the artist cultivates a shrill to gloomy … Continue reading →

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Harry S. Truman’s grandson speaks out against nuclear weapons via PRI

Posted on 2017/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Harry S. Truman was perhaps one of the most influential presidents of the 20th century. He oversaw the end of World War I and rose to the challenge of the Cold War. He was crucial to the creation of international … Continue reading →

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