Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

20% of A-bomb disease reauthorization turned down by local governments via The Mainichi

Posted on 2018/08/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The rejection rate, which was reported to be only around several percent in the past, shot up to the current level after 2014, when the central government instructed local governments to “properly manage” the program. Groups of atomic bomb … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui will warn of ‘new cold war’ on 73rd anniversary of nuclear attack via South China Morning Post

Posted on 2018/08/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

China has confirmed it will not be sending its ambassador and there has been no word from the US on whether its representative will pay respects […] Mayor Kazumi Matsui will deliver the annual Peace Declaration in the city’s Peace … Continue reading →

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In nuclear politics, one size doesn’t fit all via engadget

Posted on 2018/07/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Iran is not North Korea. […] The first strike on Hiroshima, Japan, killed 80,000 people and injured 70,000. The bomb was a uranium-based gun-type model and it scorched the earth bare. A second strike followed three days later on the … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima survivor urges University of Waterloo grads to find a cause to make their own via The Record

Posted on 2018/06/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nobel Peace Prize winner Setsuko Thurlow urges grads to find a cause to make their own WATERLOO — Hiroshima bombing survivor and activist Setsuko Thurlow recounted the horrors she witnessed, and urged University of Waterloo students to take up the … Continue reading →

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Our nuclear legacy is also our nuclear future via The Verge

Posted on 2018/06/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Journalist Fred Pearce chronicles nuclear disasters throughout history in his new book, Fallout. In the spring of 2016, journalist Fred Pearce spent an afternoon drinking what he suspected was radioactive vodka, flavored with herbs grown near the site of Chernobyl’s … Continue reading →

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Nagasaki center: US nuclear stance inconsistent via NHK World Japan

Posted on 2018/06/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A research center in western Japan has called the US nuclear stance inconsistent as the country works to modernize its arsenal while pressing North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. Nagasaki University’s Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition released its … Continue reading →

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Trump–Kim: an agenda for forgotten nuclear victims via The Interpreter

Posted on 2018/06/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] There is, however, one question that no one is asking. And it is a crucial one.  What about the North Korean A-bomb victims, the only survivors of the US nuclear attacks on Japan, who have never had recourse to … Continue reading →

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The ‘whole nuclear cycle’ via Albuquerque Journal

Posted on 2018/06/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Megan Bennett / Journal North Reporter SANTA FE, N.M. — The origins of New Mexico’s history surrounding the atomic bomb can be traced back to Robert Oppenheimer’s long-time love of the Land of Enchantment. Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist known … Continue reading →

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Nagasaki, Mon Amour via BullionVault

Posted on 2018/05/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] This reader was particularly annoyed by our implication that dropping an atomic bomb on civilians was perhaps not such a good idea. (We’ll come back to that in a minute.) BGT is as ancient as the Old Testament. Each … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor Calls for Nuclear Reform at Kennedy School via The Harvard Crimson

Posted on 2018/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Keiko Ogura, 80, a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, visited the Kennedy School to caution against the use of nuclear weapons worldwide Sunday. Ogura was eight years old on August 6, 1945, when the … Continue reading →

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