Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Dispute Over Missouri Cancer Cluster via abc news

Posted on 2014/03/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Coldwater Creek in Missouri is not officially the home of a cancer cluster, but Jennifer Smith begs to differ. At 41, Smith has already been through a host of medical problems. She had endometriosis as a teen, suffered four miscarriages … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Radioactive Nightmare via the New Yorker

Posted on 2014/03/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

I first saw “Nuclear Nation,” a haunting documentary about the Fukushima meltdown, at its New York première, late last year. It felt very Japanese to me. Instead of looping the most sensational footage—frothy waves demolishing harbors and main streets, exasperated … Continue reading →

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The Government Has Engaged In a Series of Nuclear Cover-Ups Ever Since Hiroshima via Investment Watch

Posted on 2014/03/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Government Has Been Covering up Meltdowns of Nuclear Power Plants for 55 Years The entire idea of safe nuclear energy has arguably been a cover for nuclear weapons production … at the expense of our health and the environment. Moreover, governments have … Continue reading →

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Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent; 11 minutes) via Restricted Data

Posted on 2014/02/11 by norma field

(annotated footage from Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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Protesters mark 1000th straight day of fight against nuclear power via Japan Daily Press

Posted on 2014/01/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Demonstrators against nuclear power marked January 14 as the 1000th consecutive day of their protest, which started April 2011, a month after the Fukushima disaster. Staying outside the head office of the Kyushu Electric Power Co., they continued to rally … Continue reading →

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Foreign minister under fire in Nagasaki for comment on nuclear weapons via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2014/01/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NAGASAKI–Atomic bomb survivors here blasted Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for his remark that seemed to condone the use of nuclear weapons in certain situations. “Some nuclear powers have broadly defined the potential use of their nuclear arms,” Kishida said during … Continue reading →

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Fukushima is an ongoing warning to the world on nuclear energy via the Guardian

Posted on 2014/01/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The impact of nuclear disasters can last for generations. Such man-made devastation offers a lesson to all of us “I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the … Continue reading →

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Photographing Hiroshima, Fukushima and Everything in Between via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/01/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Kikujiro Fukushima’s life in photography took off when he promised to avenge the Hiroshima bombing. It was 1952, and Mr. Fukushima — a watchmaker, volunteer social worker and photographer — met Sugimatsu Nakamura, a 43-year-old fisherman, who was gravely ill … Continue reading →

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Next Sunday (Nov 24) “Narrating the Nuclear” roundtable at AAA in Chicago

Posted on 2013/11/16 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

If you are in the Chicago area, or if you are coming to the Chicago area for the next weekend, please attend! Date & Schedule November 24 Part I “Nuclear Weaponry”: 8:00am-9:45am, As part of AAA Executive Program Committee (executive … Continue reading →

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Pushing for nuclear disarmament via the Japan Times

Posted on 2013/10/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan on Oct. 21 joined 124 other countries in signing a United Nations statement that underlines the inhuman nature of nuclear weapons and calls for the nonuse of such weapons. This is the first time that Japan has supported such … Continue reading →

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