Revisiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Visit to Hiroshima to participate in the All Asia Conference of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 2009 and again on the occasion of 20th World…
Nagasaki
US leads G7 in ambassadors’ boycott of ceremony commemorating atomic bombing of Nagasaki
The United States has led a boycott by six G7 members of Friday’s ceremony commemorating the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Justified on the basis that the…
America’s Most Criminal Act: The Atomic Bombings of Japan
On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a premeditated and ruthless attack on U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor. At the time, America was already in World War II on the…
The Fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Dangers of Nuclear Energy
The dangers of nuclear energy were understood when the WW2 Allied Forces feared that Hitler’s Germany would produce and use a nuclear bomb, to conclude WW2 in his favour. It…
The US Government Once Called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘Nuclear Tests’
In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official…
77th Nagasaki Memorial at the White House
On the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki during WWII was cause for a small group of anti-war activists to demonstrate at the White House to draw attention to…
Hiroshima Day— Threat of Actual Use of Nuclear Weapons, Accidental or Intended, is Increasing
This year has been extremely threatening in terms of the rise of big power rivalry and tensions. First, the escalation of the Ukraine crisis with Ukraine becoming a proxy country…
Urgent Need for Disarmament Efforts As Threat From Nuclear Weapons Is Increasing
On August 6, as the world observes Hiroshima Day (the 76th anniversary of the first-ever use of an atomic weapon in Hiroshima) , serious concerns regarding the threats from…
Who Told a US President to Nuclear Bomb Women and Children? Watch Out! They Might Do It Again!
Shall we understand that US crimes against humanity, including the use of nuclear weapons on civilians in cities, have been committed in a democracy and under a democratic system of…
Catholics Against Nukes: Archbishop Wester’s Hiroshima Vigil
In what is a turn-up for the books, a senior voice of the Catholic Church made something of an impression this month that did not incite scandal, hot rage, or…
Revisiting Hiroshima: The Last Cherry Blossom
On August 6, 1945, at 8.15 am, an atom bomb was dropped at Hiroshima to end World War II. Archana Mohan takes us on a journey through a novel which gives the story…
How the Impact of the Hiroshima Blast Lingers
The best introduction to Kathleen Burkinshaw is that she a humanitarian. She wrote a novel that has been taken up by The United Nations as a part of its peacekeeping…
THIS IS for YOU
Wherever on this distressed and yet magnificent Earth you live, this is for you. Right here, right now: Let’s be open and honest before one another. Please. Look at the…
Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he…
An open letter to the Prime Minister of Canada from a survivor of the Hiroshima A-Bombing
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Dear Prime Minister Trudeau: As a Hiroshima survivor, I was honoured to jointly…
Reversal
With survival at stake, can weapon makers change course? Today, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, should be a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer…
“Never again”: In remembrance of August 6, 1945
A mother and child, dressed in traditional clothing, sit on the ground amid rubble and burnt trees, Hiroshima, Japan, December 1945; some four months after the United States had dropped…
Hiroshima 75: The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence!
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth.…
Hiroshima Spring
“…how beset we were with what…we had been taught….” --Kenneth Patchen. A poem for voices, with shakuhachi and koto…. (Sound of shakuhachi, a wooden flute--as though the…
The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act…
Key Myths And Facts About The Atomic Bombings Of Japan
In 1945, US president Harry Truman (who had dictatorial control over the atomic bomb) and his advisor James Byrnes intentionally prolonged the US war with Japan until, and apparently so…
Hiroshima – Nagasaki And U.S. Mythology
The U.S. public has been kept in the dark or misled about foreign policy for much of our history. For example, as we commemorate the 71st anniversary of the dropping…
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