Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Over Seventy Prominent Scholars and Activists Urge Obama to meet Hibakusha, Take Further Steps on Nuclear Disarmament via PEACE ACTION’S GROUNDSWELL

Posted on 2016/05/27 by kojimaaiko

May 23, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC   Dear Mr. President, We were happy to learn of your plans to be the first sitting president of the United States to visit Hiroshima this week, after the … Continue reading →

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Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan via The New York Times

Posted on 2016/05/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of … Continue reading →

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Scientists still track health fallout of nuclear bombing of Japan　via PBS

Posted on 2016/05/26 by norma field

[…] MILES O’BRIEN: When I met him in 2012, radiation biophysicist Evan Douple was the associate chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The joint Japanese and U.S. study has been following the survivors of the atomic bombings … Continue reading →

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Obama ‘neglecting suffering of Korean Hiroshima survivors’ via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/05/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Victims’ groups accuse US president of ignoring their plight and fear his Hiroshima visit helps Japan gloss over its own history The bitter legacy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the US military presence on Okinawa are threatening to … Continue reading →

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The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin via The New Yorker

Posted on 2016/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The demonstration began on the afternoon of May 21, 1946, at a secret laboratory tucked into a canyon some three miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb. Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist, was showing his … Continue reading →

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We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it via Salon

Posted on 2016/05/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

President Obama will finally visit Hiroshima. Moral leadership suggests both sides apologize for unspeakable acts When President Obama visits Hiroshima later this month, he might do well to reflect on the views of another President who was also the five-star … Continue reading →

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Hibakusha: Paving the way toward the abolishment of nuclear weapons via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/05/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

“Using nuclear weapons constitutes the worst type of crime against humanity.” […] A non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the area of peace education in Malaysia had organized the symposium, to which Taniguchi had been invited by former Malaysian Prime Minister … Continue reading →

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Enola Gay is a museum piece, unlike the nuclear arms Obama hoped to eradicate　via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/05/10 by norma field

[…] In a quiet hangar outside Washington, the Enola Gay still gleams as if the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb in anger rolled off the production line yesterday. Despite his announcing a historic visit to the site … Continue reading →

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Tell President Obama: We Need Words AND Action in Hiroshima via Union of Concerned Scientists

Posted on 2016/05/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

At the end of May, President Obama will be traveling to Japan for a gathering of world leaders. While there, the president may visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the sites of the horrific US atomic bombings in August 1945, which injured … Continue reading →

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Bobby Knight: Like Truman, Trump would have ‘guts to drop the bomb’ via Politico

Posted on 2016/04/28 by kojimaaiko

According to Bobby Knight, Harry Truman was one of the three greatest presidents because he had the “guts to drop the bomb in 1944” on Japan. Donald Trump, he said, could join that list as one of the four greatest … Continue reading →

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