OMNI
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI
REMEMBRANCE AUGUST 12, 2018, NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION MOVEMENT,
UNITED NATIONS ABOLITION TREATY, 2018 NEWSLETTER
Compiled
by Dick Bennett
for a
Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI PROGRAM AUGUST 12, 2018
The
OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology
remembers Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, with the United Nations renounces war and threats of war, joins the
ICAN and Global Zero abolition movement, and celebrates the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons.
OMNI
Center holds its annual Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial
Sunday
August 12, 2018, 6:00 pm
For more information see facebook event: Annual Hiroshima
Nagasaki Remembrance
Contact Gladys Tiffany, 479-283-2167. Dick Bennett,
479-422-4600.
2018 NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
Back from the Brink: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance Program
and Nuclear Weapons Abolition, August 12,
2018
The Program, 6pm
ABOLITION
MOVEMENT
Petition
your Congressmen
Ellsberg’s
new book, The Doomsday Machine
US
Anti-Nuclear Organizations:
ICAN, NAPF, FAS, GZ, BAS, WAND, Peace Action
ICAN, NAPF, FAS, GZ, BAS, WAND, Peace Action
VFP, Demonstrate v.
Tridents on East Coast
WAND
Peace Action
Danger at
Kashmir: India v. Pakistan
TEXTS
REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI PROGRAM 2018 OMNI Center
for Peace, Justice, and Ecology invites you to attend our annual Remembrance of
the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to protest the continued US
development, deployment, and first strike nuclear war planning, Sunday,
August 12, Fulbright Fountain, 6p.m., UAF.
OMNI remembers the death of 230,000 innocents of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, renounces war and threats of war, joins ICAN and Global Zero
hopes of all humanity for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and celebrates the
United Nations Treaty Initiative to ban
nuclear weapons.
BACK FROM THE BRINK
Welcome and memorial statement for Bill Williams
Proclamation – Mayor Lioneld Jordan
Opening story – “Feathers and Fools” -
Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
Daniel Ellsberg book The
Doomsday Machine – Abel Tomlinson
Poetry – “If Just One…“
- Joe Neal
"War, it never works" -
Speaker – Sr. Rosalie Rueswald, St. Scholastica Monastery, Fort Smith
Music – “Liberty” -- Walter Schmidt
Obon Lights Ceremony
Reading of Names of the Dead –Karen Takemoto, Abel
Tomlinson
Keynote Speaker
– "Remembering the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki Atrocities: Seventy Three years On" -- – Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov
Closing music – Kelly & Donna, May Peace Prevail on
Earth chant
OMNI Center has sponsored this annual observance since
2001, continuing a Fayetteville peace community tradition that began in the
1970’s. It has always been a deeply
meaningful occasion for people who long for peace.
OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, & Ecology is a
community hub of progressive people who want a nonviolent, sustainable, and
just world, and support many projects to accomplish that. Find us at www.omnicenter.org or on
facebook at OMNI Center for Peace, Justice & Ecology, or OMNI Center Open
Forum.
ABOLITION
MOVEMENT
https://www.preventnuclearwar.org/
Back from the Brink: The
Call to Prevent Nuclear War is a national grassroots campaign seeking to
fundamentally change U.S. nuclear weapons policy and lead ...
PETITION
Tell
Congressmen you want the US to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons
Sample
Message from WILPF to support Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, which could
be used to contact U.S. Representatives:
Support the Nuclear Weapons
Ban Treaty
I am committed to a
world without nuclear weapons. I endorse the United Nations Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted by 122 countries on July 7, 2017. As a
citizen or resident of the United States, I call upon the President to sign and
the Senate to give its consent to ratify this Treaty.
Further, I call upon
the President, with the support of the Senate, to lead the way to negotiate the
total elimination of nuclear weapons, and to redirect current and planned
nuclear weapons spending to human and environmental needs.
Background - The use of
nuclear weapons, either intentional or accidental, will cause untold suffering
to millions of people and is a threat to the existence of humankind. The United
Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a legally binding
treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. The Treaty prohibits, among other things,
the possession, use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. [To see the Treaty:
http://undocs.org/A/CONF.229/2017/8.]
Daniel
Ellsberg’s new book, The Doomsday Machine
Hans Morgenthau in 1961 warned the US of
nuclear annihilation (“Death in the Nuclear Age,” an essay in Commentary
magazine that detailed in stark terms the cost a nuclear war would exact on
humanity.) But our leaders did not listen and the people
were in denial.
THE
STONE
How to Be a Prophet of Doom By Alison McQueen. New York Times, May 11. 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/nuclear-doomsday-denial.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionfront Ms. McQueen is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University.
How to Be a Prophet of Doom By Alison McQueen. New York Times, May 11. 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/nuclear-doomsday-denial.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionfront Ms. McQueen is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University.
Now Daniel Ellsberg
Repeats the Warning from Inside the US
OMNICIDE MACHINE
Daniel Ellsberg. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a
Nuclear War Planner. Bloomsbury,
2017.
The publisher’s
description with Dick’s highlights:
Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in
Nonfiction
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon
Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret,
seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.
Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking
firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the
remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the
authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the
secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed,
would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup
in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump
administration--threatens our very
survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly
of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and
nothing has fundamentally changed since that era.
Framed as a memoir--a
chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this
gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to
dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear
catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life
Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book
about not just our country, but the future of the world.
Reviews
“The Doomsday Machine is being published at an
alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target
the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald
Trump, has countered with threats of 'fire and fury.'” – New
York Magazine
“A groundbreaking and nightmare-inducing account of how the
whole mad system works.” – Esquire
“One of the best books ever written on the subject--certainly the
most honest and revealing account by an insider who plunged deep into the
nuclear rabbit hole's mad logic and came out the other side.” – Fred Kaplan, Slate
“Ellsberg, the dauntless
whistle-blower, has written a timely plea for a reassessment of a weapons
program that he describes as 'institutionalized madness.'” – Best Books of the Year 2017, The San
Francisco Chronicle
“A passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction .
. . Ellsberg's effort to make vivid the genuine madness of the 'doomsday
machine,' and the foolishness of betting our survival on mutually assured
destruction, is both commendable and important.” – Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review
Several of the hundreds of US NUCLEAR PEACE
ORGANIZATIONS, of which OMNI is one: ICAN, NAPF, FAS,
GZ, BAS, Peace Action
ICAN International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Won
Nobel Peace Prize
NAPF Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, alll-around opposition
to Nuclear Weapons
FAS Federation of
American Scientists • www.fas.org
GZ Ground Zero, Monitoring the Tridents in Washington State and Georgia
GZ Ground Zero, Monitoring the Tridents in Washington State and Georgia
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, creator of the Doomsday
Clock
Peace Action
ICAN
Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation
Sunflower Newsletter: Issue #251 June 2018
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CONTENTS
· Perspectives
o
Violating
the Iran Deal: Playing with Nuclear Fire by David Krieger
o
Men
with Fragile Egos Should Not Have the World's Faith Placed in Them by
Beatrice Fihn
o
20
Years of Nuclear tests by India and Pakistan by Kumar Sundaram
o
Gaza:
Grief, Horror, Outrage, Remembering by Richard Falk
· U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
o
President
Trump Decides to Unilaterally Violate Iran Nuclear Deal
o
June
12 Summit
Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un Is Back On
· Nuclear Disarmament
o
Three
Nations Ratify Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in May
· War and Peace
o
International
Delegation of Women Gather in South Korea to Advocate for Peace
· Nuclear "Modernization"
o
U.S.
Expands Nuclear Arsenal While Demanding Others Disarm
· Nuclear Insanity
o
Air
Force Nuclear Missile Guards Used LSD
· Resources
o
This
Month in Nuclear Threat History
o
The
Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Pacific
o
Poet
Climbs Runit Dome to Expose Radioactive Legacy
· Foundation Activities
o
Evening
for Peace to Honor Current Nobel Peace Laureate
o
Peace
Literacy Spotlight: Canadian Educators and Students
o
Letter
in the Los Angeles Times
o
30th
Annual DC Days
o
Disarmament
Education Report Submitted to UN Secretary-General
· www.wagingpeace.org/sunflower-newsletter-june-2018
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WEST COAST TRIDENT OPPOSITION
GROUND ZERO, Magazine of
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (April 2018).
An excellent way to stay abreast of the Bomb Abolition
movement. Some contents:
Page 1 cartoon:
At left, Kim Jong-Un holding in one hand 3 nuclear missiles, at right
Uncle Sam, sitting atop a massive arsenal of huge nuclear weapons, pointing at
Kim and shouting “MADMAN!” [Has that
warped perceptive has been overcome? NK
must give up all its nucs, USA none?]
“The Centrality of Trident to the U.S. Nuclear
Posture.”
“Ground Zero v. Navy—Final Report on the
Lawsuit.” GZ’s 5-year suit to prevent
the expansion of the Trident Submarine base did not stop the wharf but won
several First Amendment parts of the lawsuit; for example, forcing the Navy to
reveal its records that proved it had lied.
“Mother’s Day Action with Musical Guests the
Seattle Peace Chorus.” Celebrating Julia
Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day for Peace.
“Twenty-Four Arrested at Nevada Nuclear Test
Site.” GZ participates in the annual
protest.
“Real bomb Threats vs. Fake Ones.” A man at the gates of the Trident base
claimed he was carrying explosives, but was not. The real and continuing threat is the
submarine base, where 38 percent of all US deployed nuclear warheads are
located.
GZ owns its own permanent opposition Center
near the submarines and sustains protests of many kinds. With them and the other thousand peace
centers in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the Peace Movement has a vibrant,
life-enhancing voice. –Dick
GROUND
ZERO (July
2018), the
newsletter of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, in permanent
protest against the Trident submarines based at Bangor near Seattle. Contents
include:
“Thirty-Nine Seattle Buses Will Carry
Anti-Nuclear Message,” by Glen Milner. The ad: “Puget Sound: Home to one-third of
U.S. deployed nuclear weapons….Accept Responsibility.” The US Navy operates a fleet of 14 ballistic
missile submarines, of which 8 operate in the Pacific from their base at
Kitsap-Bangor, and 6 operate in the Atlantic from their base at Kings Bay, in
Georgia.
“Bannering for Abolition” by Leonard
Eiger. Members of Ground Zero Center
began their Summer of Resistance to nuclear weapons by holding banners over
Interstate 5 in Seattle.
GZ is a foundation of opposition to nuclear
weapons; I urge your support.
--Dick
EAST COAST TRIDENT ACTION
Veterans for Peace E-NEWS, JULY 26, 2018
From September 3
- 14, DISARM TRIDENT activists will walk down the length of
Georgia's coast from Savannah to the Kings Bay Submarine Base. The walk
will focus on bringing attention to the deadly nuclear-weapons housed at the
Base and to continue to advocate for the U.S. to sign the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
The walk will begin
with an orientation gathering on September 3 in Savannah, GA.
On September 4, the group will begin walking and, following lunch, travel
in vehicles to gather outside of the General Dynamics facility located in
Savannah.
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OMNI’S HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE HAS BEEN ARKANSAS’
VOICE TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR BOMBS SINCE THE 1970S.
INDIA VS. PAKISTAN: ANOTHER URGENT REASON TO
ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PAKISTAN AND INDIAWhile the global diplomatic circuits, international media and opinion makers are busy discussing whether North Korea would de-nuclearize itself, or if Iran would go nuclear, there seems to be a complete silence this month as the world’s only nuclear-armed neighbors with ongoing conflicts complete 20 years of their nuclear tests conducted since May 1998.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock statement this year mentioned the "simmering tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan." It refers to the "threats of nuclear warfare" hanging in the background "as Pakistan and India faced each other warily across the Line of Control in Kashmir," a reference to the surgical strikes by the Indian military across the LoC on September 29. Sunflower Newsletter, June 20, 2018, NAPF. To read more, click here.
Newsletter Contents: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance,
Abolition Movement, United Nations Treaty Newsletter 2017. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/07/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-nuclear-weapons.html
Three New Books Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and an
Inside Look at the Pentagon
Resistance Today: ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING ABOLITION OF THE BOMBS
New Books
Nuclear
Darkness: Photographs of Hiroshima Before and After the Bomb
Caren Stelson, Sachiko,
a Nagasaki survivor’s story
Susan Southard, Nagasaki:
Life After Nuclear War
Memoir by Paul H.
Johnstone, Commentary by Diana Johnstone.
From MAD to Madness: Inside
Pentagon Nuclear War Planning
History of Nuclear Weapons Continued:
2 Books and an Article
Schlosser, Command and Control
Zak, Almighty
Mother Jones
Schlosser, Command and Control
Zak, Almighty
Mother Jones
Nonviolence
END H-N/NUCLEAR ABOLITION
NEWSLETTER 2018
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