Tag Archives: Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2018/04/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River. The releases at the Department of Energy … Continue reading →

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Nun-activist who protests ‘immoral’ U.S. nuclear weapons focus of film via Crux

Posted on 2018/04/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SOUTH BEND, Indiana – From her petite frame, knit sweater and snow-white hair, it would be difficult to guess that 88-year-old Sister Megan Rice, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, recently spent two years behind bars … Continue reading →

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Chunichi Dragons fans chant “Let A-bomb drop” at Hiroshima Carp via Kyodo News

Posted on 2018/04/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Some fans of professional baseball team the Chunichi Dragons have been caught on video chanting “Let the atomic bomb drop” at the Hiroshima Carp, Dragons officials said Thursday. In the 20-second footage uploaded to YouTube, believed to have been taken … Continue reading →

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Los Alamos museum refuses to host A-bomb exhibit, citing stance on nuclear abolition via The Japan Times

Posted on 2018/03/31 by nfield

LOS ANGELES – The executive director of a museum in the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, said Friday that it will not host a traveling exhibition focused on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as planned due to concerns … Continue reading →

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Collateral Damage with D. J. Wilson via KDHX

Posted on 2018/03/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Episode 137: West Lake Landfill Community Advisory Group Listen to the podcast at Collateral Damage with D. J. Wilson   

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Japan’s long democratic detour via Swiss Info

Posted on 2018/03/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Instead, the government has kept the main national power companies’ regional grid monopolies intact and has agreed to bring most of the 54 closed nuclear reactors across Japan back into operation by 2025. The world’s third-largest economy is experiencing challenging … Continue reading →

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Nuclear bomb survivors glide into Sydney on Japan’s Peace Boat via SBS News

Posted on 2018/02/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan’s 11-storey Peace Boat, that advocates for nuclear disarmament, has entered Sydney Harbour. Japan’s Peace Boat has sailed into Sydney Harbour carrying survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings as well as descendants of Aboriginal survivors of the 1950s Maralinga … Continue reading →

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A-bomb survivors react to US nuclear policy via NHK World

Posted on 2018/02/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Atomic bomb survivors in Japan have expressed anger and disappointment over the new US nuclear strategy. […] Mimaki said he feels outrage at the policy. He says if a president of a major power wants to increase and modernize nuclear … Continue reading →

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Nuclear’s Resurrected Safety Lie of “Duck & Cover” – Bo Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute – #345 via Nuclear Hottest

Posted on 2018/02/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

This Week’s Featured Interview: Bo Jacobs is a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and author of the recent Truth-out.org article, “We Cannot Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse by Ducking and Covering.”  He discusses the recent spate of articles promoting the … Continue reading →

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Is Japan moving to renege on no-nuclear weapon policy? via The Nation

Posted on 2018/01/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, was denied a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during her recent visit to Japan. […] It is not difficult to understand why … Continue reading →

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