OMNI HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE ANTHOLOGY 2025 #2
AUGUST 4, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
What’s at Stake: Just before and during the early 20th
century, the Western powers expanded their colonialism into S. E. Asia and the
Pacific. The US took Hawaii, Wake
Island, Guam, and the Philippines. The French took IndoChina; the Dutch Malaysia. Japan
began a war against eastern Asia. In
1941 the US and UK blocked imports into Japan critical to empire. On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
and the US declared war on Japan, Italy, and Germany. In 1945 the US destroyed two Japanese cities using the
new atomic bombs. The nuclear weapons
race began. The Soviet Union developed
atomic bombs. In the 1950s the US
developed even more destructive hydrogen bombs, testing them 67 times in the
Marshall Islands. The Russians
followed. Now nine countries have the
bomb. The competition seemed endless,
and hopeless for all species. But in 2021,
after long advocacy by ICAN and other anti-nuclear organizations, the United
Nations General Assembly passed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons, banning the use, possession, testing, and
transfer of nuclear weapons under international law. The Treaty was ratified by the
required number of nations. At last the abolition
of nuclear weapons seemed in reach. But the nuclear 9 did not ratify the Treaty. So the
race continues. The US budget for “modernizing”
its nuclear arsenal has reached $1 trillion.
The danger to our civilization and species has never been greater. And the importance of remembering the US origin
of the bomb has never been more urgent if we are ever to end the enmity between
the US and the SU (now Russia) and abolish nuclear weapons.
CONTENTS
HIBAKUSHA
ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS OMNI REMEMBRANCE 2025 AT OMNI, AUGUST 10, 7P.M
PBS
Atomic People Video.
PBS, August 4, 9.p.m.
PBS. “Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from
WWII.” Tues. Aug.26, 9p.m.
The Open Mind. Stopping Nuclear Inevitability. August 10, 2p.m.
Rick Steve’s Fascism in Europe. August
12 and 15.
“Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens a ‘Hard Rain’s
a-Gonna Fall.’”
Is
Hollywood Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb? Greg Mitchell on Oppenheimer.
Eric Singer. “The First Atomic Bomb
Victim.”
Tom Dispatch, Tomgram. “The Atomic
Nightmares. Then and Now….”
“Eric Ross: Why . . . So Little Dissent at Los Alamos….?”
TEXTS
[As
readers have noted, because of the emotional nature of our social communication
system, I omit visuals from my Anthologies, relying upon the sufficiency of reason
and knowledge, but for this historical day I present one photo of a burned
victim. –D]
Hibakusha
https://education.unoda.org/presentations/hibakusha.html
REMEMBRANCE AT OMNI, AUGUST 10, 7P.M
Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial coming up August 10
7:00 pm at Omni.
Respond of the
Facebook event please. More info there!
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Commemoration 2025
Both Harmonia
and Geoff Oelsner will be performing their warm and healing music.
Dr. Michael Anthony,
UA Dept of HIstory, will tell the story of the Titan II missile explosion
in Damascus, AR and how it relates to nuclear war. Dr. Anthony says:
"The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
was an engineering marvel. Tested in 1961, the ICBM could deliver a
nine-megaton nuclear device (600 times the power of the bomb dropped on
Hiroshima) 5500 miles and accurately strike within a one-square-mile target.
The diplomatic implications of possessing such a device were unmistakable as
the United States and Soviet Union entered the iciest period of the Cold War.
While much has been written about the strategic role of these missiles, little
has been said about the risks they posed to the Americans who had to live with
them in their backyards." This
presentation shifts the focus to the risks once posed to Arkansans by these
eighteen Titan II missile silos kept on alert status in north central Arkansas
from 1963 to 1987.
Dr. Art Hobson will
be hosting a discussion session after the event for people to bring up
questions and comments. There's so much about this fraught topic that needs to
be studied and discussed.
Put
this moving event on your calendar, and come ready to learn.
ATOMIC PEOPLE Premiere, PBS
8-4, 8-6, 8-9, 8-10 Skip to Main Content
Watch Preview
Premieres Monday, August 4 at 10/9c
Combining
their personal accounts with archive footage, "Atomic People"
features a number of voices from some of the only people left on Earth to have
survived a nuclear bomb.
Preview:
8/3/2025 | "Atomic People" explores the human fallout from the atomic
bombs used in an act of war. (30s)
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Video has Closed CaptionsCC
Clip:
8/3/2025 | A survivor of the Hiroshima bombing retells how his brother saved
him from the blast. (2m 38s)
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Love and Life After the Bombing
Video has Closed CaptionsCC
Clip:
8/3/2025 | Survivors of the atomic bombs in Japan faced challenges later in
their personal lives. (4m 41s)
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Clip:
8/3/2025 | Survivors of the Hiroshima bombing retell the moments before and
after on August 6, 1945. (5m 49s)
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Clip:
8/3/2025 | Survivors of the atomic bombing in Japan come together to advocate
for peace and change. (4m 5s)
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PBS, The Open
Mind. “Stopping Nuclear Inevitability.”
THIRTEEN
- New York Public Media https://www.thirteen.org › Programs
Mar 17, 2025 — The Open
Mind | Episode | Stopping Nuclear Inevitability.
Counterproliferation leader Emma Belcher discusses reversing the likelihood of
nuclear war.
PBS.
Rick Steves. Fascism in
Europe.
Fascism
in Europe Special (and Pledge Event)
Rick
Steves Europe https://www.ricksteves.com › tv-programmers › fascism
In
this one-hour special, Rick travels back a
century to learn how fascism rose
and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with
it.
“Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still
Threatens a ‘Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’” By Amy Goodman and Denis
Moynihan.
The "hibakusha" are the surviving victims of the
atomic bombs which fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While these individuals
survived the immediate effects of the blasts, the hibakusha have suffered from
the effects of radiation sickness, loss of family and friends, and
discrimination.
In spite of their difficulties, many hibakusha have been
shining examples of turning their personal tragedies into a struggle to promote
peace and to create a world free of nuclear weapons.
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“Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens a ‘Hard Rain’s
a-Gonna Fall’” By Amy
Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Weekly
Column Thursday, July 17,
2025.
July 16 marked the 80th anniversary
of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb’s creator, physicist J.
Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh
desert terrain had been known for centuries by the name given by the Spanish
conquistadors, the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of Death. The Trinity
test was followed by the first and to date only wartime uses of atomic
weapons, when the U.S. dropped bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, on August 6th and 9th, respectively. Over 210,000 people were
killed in the blasts, almost all of them civilians.
Years later, Oppenheimer reflected on Trinity during an interview with
NBC News:
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed; a few people
cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture,
the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do
his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multiarmed form and says, ‘Now I am
become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way
or another.”
Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been
close calls. Just last month, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons on Ukraine. In his first term,
President Donald Trump suggested a nuclear attack on North Korea when he
threatened the nuclear-armed country with “fire and fury.”
Historians generally agree that the closest we’ve come to nuclear war was the Cuban
missile crisis in October 1962, the height of the Cold War between the U.S.
and the Soviet Union. The U.S. had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and
Italy, ... Read More
New Release of Bob
Dylan’s “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th
Anniversary
On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s
first nuclear detonation. Today, ... Read More →
Is Hollywood Still
Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb?: Greg Mitchell on Oppenheimer
The movie Oppenheimer about J. Robert Oppenheimer — the
“father of the atomic bomb” — focuses on ... Read More →
Eric
Singer. “The first
atomic bomb victims” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Jul 20, 2025 . From
Pat Snyder. The first atomic bomb victims. Read more...
80 Years
After Trinity
TOMDISPATCH. 
“Eric
Ross, The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now,” July 17, 2025.
No kid is under a desk anymore -- and
isn't that strange when you think about it? After all, when I "ducked and covered"
like Bert the Turtle at
school in the 1950s by huddling under my desk as sirens howled outside the
classroom window, "only" (and yes, I do need to put that in quotation
marks, since it was distinctly two too many even then) two countries, mine and
the Soviet Union, had nuclear weapons; and only two atomic bombs, all too
charmingly dubbed "Little
Boy" and "Fat Man," had ever been used (with devastating effect)
on August 6th and 9th, 1945, against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, slaughtering somewhere between 110,000
and 210,000 people. Imagine that, and imagine as well that the atomic weaponry
of today is wildly more powerful and
destructive than those two bombs, that nine countries now possess
such weaponry, and that my own country is planning to continue to
"modernize" its nuclear arsenal to the tune of an estimated $1.7 trillion (no,
that is not a misprint) or more in the coming decades.
And my country, along with Israel,
also a nuclear power, just launched a series of devastating (non-nuclear)
attacks on Iran, supposedly to prevent it from becoming the 10th country to
possess nuclear weapons (though it seems distinctly unlikely that
the Iranian regime was even trying to produce such weaponry).
All in all, consider it the
post-modern equivalent of a miracle that, 80 years after those atomic
bombs were dropped on Japanese cities, such weaponry has never again been used,
even as it has continued to grow ever more powerful and spread around the
planet. After all, since the 1980s, it's been known that a nuclear war
between two powers (like India and Pakistan) could cause a global "nuclear
winter" that might all too quickly result in the equivalent
of the long-term major extinctions of this planet's past history.
And with all of that in mind on this
ever-stranger planet of ours, let Eric Ross take you on a little tour of
the once-upon-a-time world of the first atomic bomb's production, what the
scientists making it already grasped about it, and why most of them
continued to create it anyway, sending us into another universe. Tom
Why
Was There So Little Dissent at Los Alamos and What Does It Mean Today? By Eric Ross . . . .
MORE https://tomdispatch.com/80-years-after-trinity/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=66f98add75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_17_01_33&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-66f98add75-309346777
OMNI
HIROSHIMA -NAGASAKI ANTHOLOGY 2025
July 31, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice,
and Ecology
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-anthology-2025.html
OMNI
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025
August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI,
Lee St.
MC Kelly Mulhollan
Keynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.
Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and Harmonia
Reading of names.
Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson
What’s
at Stake:
United
Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
https://disarmament.unoda.org ›
wmd › nuclear › tpnw
The
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is
a United Nations treaty that aims to prohibit all activities related to
nuclear weapons, including development, testing, production, and
possession. It was adopted on July 7, 2017, and entered into force on
January 22, 2021, after receiving 50 ratifications. The TPNW is the
first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively ban nuclear
weapons, marking a significant step towards their elimination.
Key
Provisions. . . .
Current
Status:
As of February 2025, 73 states have ratified or acceded to the TPNW, and 94
have signed it, according to UN
Press Releases.
The treaty entered into
force on January 22, 2021, after receiving 50 ratifications.
The first Meeting of States Parties was held in Vienna in June 2022.
CONTENTS H-N ANTHOLOGY July 31, 2025 #1
[A 2nd
Anthology for 2025 was pub. Aug. 4.]
Nuclear
Weapons
Nuclear Threat
Beneath the Seas By Lynda Williams.
Andre
Damon. “In Major Expansion of Nuclear Weapons….”
Victims
Remembering Nuclear
Test Victims 71 Years After the Castle Bravo Test” By
Gerry Condon and Helen Jaccard.
Protest,
Resistance
“80
Years Since Nuking of Cities.” World BEYOND War .
Sacred Peace Walk in Nevada April 12-18. Nevada
Desert Experience.
“City Asked To Support
Policies To Defuse Threat Of Nuclear War” by Bill
Christofferson.
From
Hiroshima to the Treaty to Nobel Peace Prize
"ICAN"
stands for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons,. This is a coalition of non-governmental organizations that work
to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
ICAN:
LOOKING AHEAD 9-26-24
ICAN: 10-14-24
Roots Action, 10-22-24
ICAN 11-1-24.
“Tomorrow:
Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony for atomic bomb survivors!” Daniel
Högsta, ICAN <admin@icanw.org>
12-9-24.
ICAN 12-13-24
“The True Scale of
Modern Nuclear Weapons.”
Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson. The Myth of American Idealism:
How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World.
NUCLEAR POWER
Sit Tsui
and Lau Kin Chi. “Emerging Oceanic
Struggles for No-Nukes in Japan.”
BOOKS SHOW Respect for the Ocean
END H-N REMEMBRANCE AND ANTHOLOGY #2
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