Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

State report: Exposure to air near Bridgeton Landfill may have harmed people’s health via St. Louis Public Radio

By DAVID CAZARES Updated at 5:45 p.m. with statement from Republic Services — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has determined that past exposure to sulfur-based compounds in the air near the Bridgeton landfill may have harmed the … Continue reading

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[podcast] Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki via New Books Network

N.A.J. TAYLOR AND R. JACOBS, EDS. Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War ROUTLEDGE 2017 N.A.J. Taylor and Robert Jacobs,’s edited volume Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War (Routledge, 2017) developed out of a … Continue reading

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‘Fukushima Devil Fish’: A Nuclear Pastoral via The New York Review of Books

Ryan Holmberg Art changed in Japan after the tsunami and nuclear meltdowns of March 2011. So did art history—or at least it should have. […] Yet much of this retrospection ignored a basic fact: very few of Japan’s many disaster-fantasy … Continue reading

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U.N. chief offers a warning on anniversary of last nuclear attack via CBS News

TOKYO — Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world’s second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations chief and the city’s mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the first United Nations chief … Continue reading

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An Emergency Statement on the Oppression at the hands of the Local Police against theFukushima Nuclear Evacuees’ Aug.6 Hiroshima Action via Go West-Come West

Hiroshima Police Unlawfully Arrested A Citizen to Silence Evacuees Appealing aboutOngoing Fukushima Disaster. A Serious Threats to Human Right and Free Speech. Please share the following news and the our first statement of protest. We demand that the Hiroshima police … Continue reading

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U.N. chief offers a warning on anniversary of last nuclear attack via CBSNews

TOKYO — Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world’s second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations chief and the city’s mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the first United Nations chief … Continue reading

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration – Daniel Ellsberg, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow, Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES via Nuclear Hotseat

Hiroshima watch frozen at the exact time the atomic bomb landed on August 6, 1945. Listen Here:   Podcast: Download Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration: Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, explains the group’s special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and its annual August 6 March … Continue reading

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FUKUSHIMA SURVIVOR TO SPEAK AT HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION via Rafu Shimpo

On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace, community, labor, environmental, and Native American activists remember the devastation of World War II in the Asia Pacific region and the ongoing danger of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. … Continue reading

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“Earth Will Be Annihilated”: On 73rd Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing, a Warning Against Nuclear War via Democracy Now!

oday marks the 73rd anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, which killed 140,000 people and seriously injured another 100,000. In remembrance, we turn to the words of a Hiroshima survivor, or hibakusha. Koji … Continue reading

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The Hiroshima anniversary: 5 things you should know about nuclear weapons today via Vox

Seventy-three years after the first use of the atomic bomb in wartime, commitment to arms control is fading. The imprint on public consciousness of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which occurred 73 years ago Monday, has faded greatly. The hibakusha, … Continue reading

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