Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
FREE CONCERT TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI GIVEN BY THE SANTA CRUZ RAGING GRANNIES ON THE STAGE AT THE SANTA CRUZ COFFEE ROASTING COMPANY, 1330 PACIFIC AVE. IN DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ. THE TIME IS 1 PM TO 3 PM SPONSORED BY THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM . FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL JAN HARWOOD, 471-9992. Added to the calendar on Thursday Jul 24th, 2008 10:21...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Witnesses to History: Conveying the Tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. Oakland City Council President Pro Tem Jean Quan and Western States Legal Foundation cordially invite you to view a very special exhibit provided by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. Many photos of people, places & things effected by the 1945 atomic bombings will be on display in Oakland City Hall rotunda: -- August...
this ain't livin' (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
copyright meloukhia When the atom bombs were dropped on Japan, war correspondent George Weller realized that therein lay a story, and he decided to get to Nagasaki at all costs to interview survivors and American POWs. He managed the feat, impersonating a colonel along the way, and went on to tour several prisoner of war [...]
and nico makes four (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
It's impossible when walking around modern Nagasaki not to feel a sense of history, a sense of sadness. On our recent trip, we did not make it to the Peace Park or the Atomic Bomb museum but everywhere you walk there are plaques telling you what used to be there. They are discrete about it, they do not state that this building or that was destroyed by the bomb. This is very generous on Nagasaki's...
Riverside News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
The Mission and Social Justice Commision of The Riverside Church, The New York Buddhist Church (331 Riverside Drive), and The Universal Peace Initiative commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Tuesday, August 5th with performers from Japan and the US. At 6:30 p.m. there will be an Interfaith Peace Memorial Gathering at the New York Buddhist Church led by...
No Oil for Pacifists (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nuclear blasts: nine photos . Number seven is new to me: source: Wired caption : The exact moment of detonation at Nagasaki is captured in this remarkable photograph. Notice the three people in the foreground, as yet unaware that anything has happened. (via Conservative Grapevine )
A Welsh View (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A collection of nuclear explosion photos including the one above which is supposed to be from Nagasaki.
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and not really giving a fuck (keep in mind that the guys who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fared better, psychologically, then guys who've done a standard 4-year hitch on the ground in Baghdad, even though each of the bomber crew, on average, killed several thousand more people, most of them blameless and with no power to effect any change on Japanese foreign policy. For more...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Witnesses to History: Conveying the Tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. Oakland City Council President Pro Tem Jean Quan and Western States Legal Foundation cordially invite you to view a very special exhibit provided by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. Many photos of people, places & things effected by the 1945 atomic bombings will be on display in Oakland City Hall rotunda: -- August...
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... enough, he actually said “the bomb.” Could our speaker be mixing up Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, or Nagasaki? In any case, it’s perhaps the biggest Pearl Harbor goof since Sept. 7, 1988, when George H.W. Bush got the month of the attack wrong. Posted by John Ray . For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM . For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN...
merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... to deal with these problems'I am yet to know a person who doesn’t condemn bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is no concrete data about the affordability and viability of nuclear energy as future energy option. The nuclear weapons are perceived as the biggest threat and have triggered wars. There is no information about nuclear weapons programme of developed nations (remember Americans...
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... blast, the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.Eight more reactors would be built at Hanford to produce plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. The remnants of that effort today make Hanford the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, with cleanup costs expected to top $50 billion.Five reactors at the...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... blast, the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
The government shut down B Reactor in 1968 and decommissioned it.
Eight other reactors were built at Hanford to produce plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. The remnants of that effort today make Hanford the nation's most contaminated nuclear...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... blast, the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.The government shut down B Reactor in 1968 and decommissioned it.Eight other reactors were built at Hanford to produce plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. The remnants of that effort today make Hanford the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, with...
KOMO - News - Local (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - The National Park System's advisory board has recommended designating a reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation as a National Historic Landmark.The "B" Reactor was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. It produced the plutonium for the first man-made nuclear blast and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II.The reactor was shut down...
