OMNI
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI
REMEMBRANCE AND MOVEMENT TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS 2026
August 5, 2026 for August 6 and 9, 81st Anniversary
(articles and reviews that
reached OMNI after August 2025, and others published in 2026)
Compiled by Dick Bennett
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AUGUST
9 PROGRAM
OMNI
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE AUGUST 6 AND AUGUST 9, AND CAMPAIGN AGAINST NUCLEAR
WEAPONS (TPNW).
Director Gladys Tiffany |
81st
Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration
Sunday
August 9 -- 7:00 pm – Omni Center
There's
deep meaning to this annual event that changes over time. In 1945 when
the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we were rolling out the first-ever method
for the human race to totally destroy itself and its planet home. As if
that weren’t bad enough, under the guidance of the patriarchal systems that
have dominated the world for the last 10,000 years, we’ve gone on to develop an
entire range of systems working toward that same end. We have a choice of
self-destructions … if we keep choosing leaders drooling to use them.
Nuclear
destruction remains the quickest, and maybe you could say the most efficient,
so far. We’re approaching the defining moment when we humans – all genders of
us -- determine just how much we want to cling to that sticky (like a
dried-out-old-cocklebur embedded in your foot) patriarchal value system
that puts everything we love at such risk.
The
annual commemoration Omni has held all these decades honors that moment of
truth in us, that deliberately turns away from the death-wish of the old system
and chooses life.
Please
join other Omni friends Sunday August 9 to celebrate the radiant life of people
and planet, and the progressive, human and planet-centered orientation we
share, in the confidence that there will be life after.
Remember
what brilliant visionary Arundhati Roy said …
“…Another
world is not only possible, she’s on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her
breathing.”
OMNI's War and Warming
Anthologies: 2024
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.
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Activities:.The TPNW prohibits states parties from developing, testing,
producing, manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, transferring,
stationing, deploying, using, or threatening to use nuclear weapons.
Prohibition of Assistance:.The treaty also prohibits states parties from assisting,
encouraging, or inducing anyone to engage in any prohibited activity.
Victim Assistance and Environmental
Remediation:.The TPNW includes provisions for victim assistance,
requiring states parties to provide age- and gender-sensitive support to
individuals affected by nuclear weapons use or testing. It also mandates
environmental remediation of areas contaminated by nuclear weapons
activities.
Cooperation and Implementation:The treaty emphasizes cooperation among states parties to
facilitate its implementation and promote its universalization.
Significance
and Impact:
- Humanitarian
Focus: The TPNW is grounded in the humanitarian consequences of nuclear
weapons, emphasizing the catastrophic and lasting impacts of their use on
health, societies, and the environment.
- Disarmament
Efforts: The treaty is seen as a crucial step towards achieving a world free
of nuclear weapons, reinforcing commitments made in other disarmament
treaties like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
- International
Norms: The TPNW is shaping international norms and perceptions regarding
nuclear weapons, highlighting the unacceptable humanitarian consequences
of their existence and potential use.
- Criticism and
Opposition:
While
the TPNW is supported by many nations and civil society organizations, it faces
opposition from nuclear-weapon states and their allies, who rely on nuclear
deterrence and have not joined the treaty.
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
Articles & Reviews AUGUST 9, 2026
[I
received the following items after the publication of OMNI’s two 2025
anthologies, and saved them for 2026.
Publications and events regarding the bombings were overflowing in 2025,
the 80th anniversary of the bombings, and continue prolifically in
2026, probably inspired by the new nuclear arms race. The selections move generally from the 1945
bombings to the consequences to prevention of WWIII. Whereas most of the publications or films present
points of view critical of the US Democratic/Republican war establishment, two
selections differ. The Yavlinsky interview
deserves attention because he is the leader of Russia’s opposition Yabloko
Party. And Victory in the Pacific
presents a history of WWII in the Pacific from the point of view of the
US. –Dick]
2026 Commemoration
Program
What’s at Stake: The Treaty.
PBS, WETA. Pictures from a Hiroshima
Schoolyard.
“Atomic Bombings at 80…Nagasaki.”
(2 articles)
TMS Peace Journalism (two articles on a 94 year old
and 91 year old Hibakusha).
PBS, “Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories. . . .”
“US, Korea, and Japan Share an 80 Year Nuclear
Nightmare.”
“’No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives.”
Goldschmidt and Yamada. “Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and Genocide.”
“Truman’s ‘Human Sacrifice’ to Subdue Moscow.”
“Everyone Must Watch This: A House of Dynamite”
Film, Netflix.
The House of Dynamite Sequel.
Related Posts.
Hobson. “America and Russia Are vastly
Over-Armed.”
Grigory Yavlinsky (interv.). “We Must
Avert Nuclear Armageddon.”
Yamasaki. Colorado’s Radioactive
History.
VFP. “Remembering H & N, 80 Years
On” (a dozen articles and films).
Victory in the Pacific Film (final year of WWII Pacific).
VFP. “Afterthoughts of Hiroshima Day”
(from Common Dreams).
TomGram. “Eric Ross, Hiroshima Remains
an Open
Wound in Our Imperiled World.”
Eric Ross. “Eighty Years of Talking
Peace and
Preparing for Nuclear War.”
VFP. “Hiroshima Lives On—in Gaza.”
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.
Jimmy Tobias. “The Return of the
Nuclear Threat.”
“Preparing for Nuclear War 2026.”
“Stopping Nuclear Inevitability.”
Win Without War. Nuclear Dangers and
Remedies: No
First Use!
John Pilger. “Another Hiroshima Is
Coming—Unless
We Stop It.”
Joe Lauria. “When Time Stopped in
Hiroshima.”
Roots Action. “Creating a Nuclear Free
Zone.”
Andrew Cockburn. “Hiroshima Anniversary? Let’s Celebrate with Another Nuclear War.”
FCNL. “Reduce
Nuclear Risks Through Diplomacy.”
TEXTS
PBS. WETA. Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard. Survivors
of Hiroshima are reunited with their childhood drawings over 60
years later.
Pictures
from a Hiroshima Schoolyard
Pictures
from a Hiroshima Schoolyard http://www.hiroshimaschoolyard.com
Pictures from a
Hiroshima Schoolyard. Written & Directed By Bryan Reichhardt. | Produced By Shizumi Shigeto ... Videos
“ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Mystery of
the Nagasaki Bombings.” Consortium News (8-9-25).
“ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Mystery of the Nagasaki
Bomb.” Consortium News (8-9-25).
On Aug. 9, 1945, as Japan’s high command met on surrender
plans, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki killing 74,000 people
instantly, a decision that’s never been adequately explained, writes John
LaForge. Read here... 8-9-25.
“ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80:
The Very Un-Christian
Nagasaki Bomb.” Consortium News (8-9-25).
An all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan’s
most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable
barbarism, writes Gary G. Kohls. Read here...
Transcend Media Service (TMS) PEACE
JOURNALISM
“94-Year-Old Seizes Chance to Tell Her Story of Atomic
Bombing.”
Akari Uozumi. The Asahi Shimbun. TRANSCEND Media
Service. 1
Aug 2025. When Michiko Sakamoto
opened the questionnaire sent to atomic bomb survivors nationwide, ideas for
what she wanted to write came in a rush. The 94-year-old sat at her “kotatsu”
heated table and gripped a pen at her home in the western Tokyo city of
Kodaira. Read more...
91-Year-Old Man Exposed to Atomic Bombs Both in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The
Nagasaki Shimbun.
TRANSCEND Media Service. 6 Aug 2025 – “It’s still too hard for me to remember the
hells that I experienced twice. I walked past piles of bodies.” Read more...
Atomic Echoes. “Untold
Stories From World War II.” TV program AI Overview
"Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories
from WWII" is a documentary that explores the lasting trauma of the
atomic bombings on both sides of the conflict through personal
stories. The film was created by two friends, Victoria Kelly and Karen Tanabe, who were inspired to connect their opposing family
histories—Kelly's through an atomic veteran grandfather and Tanabe's through
her family in Japan. They interviewed survivors, known as hibakusha, and American atomic veterans, highlighting both the
physical health complications and psychological scars from the
bombings.
- Creators:
The documentary was produced by Victoria Kelly and Karen
Tanabe, who sought to bridge the historical divide by sharing their family's
connections to the bombings.
- Inspiration:
The project was prompted by the release of the movie
Oppenheimer and a desire to explore personal, untold stories of the atomic
bombings.
- Content:
The film features interviews with both American atomic
veterans and Japanese survivors, addressing the lifelong health issues and PTSD
experienced by both groups.
- Urgency:
The filmmakers felt a sense of urgency to complete the film
due to the advanced age of many survivors and veterans, as they are a rapidly
aging population.
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Echoes: Untold Stories From World War II | PBS NC. Two friends, connected by
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Two friends,
connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to
explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Videos
[VFP-all] “The US, Korea, and Japan
Share an 80 Year Nuclear Nightmare”
Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com 8-4-26
Over 70,000 Koreans were exposed to the two atomic bombs incinerating
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people forcibly removed from their homeland by the
Japanese and sent to work in these cities.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-korea-japan-nuclear
Abolish Nuclear Weapons
and War!
No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives by
VFP Advisor David Swanson [World BEYOND War, August 2, 2025]
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“Hiroshima
Anniversary? Let's Celebrate with Another Nuclear War!”
to celebrate the occasion by preparing for a repeat
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you: “ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT
80: Truman’s ‘Human Sacrifice’ to Subdue Moscow.” Consortium News (8-6-25).
“ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where
the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched
uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral
out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria. Read here... |
[VFP-all] Everyone must watch this:
"A House of Dynamite" on Netflix.
Oct 26, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw2QHJNco
(Trailer)
Los Alamos Study Group director Greg Mello:
"The film's highly-realistic portrayal of a
nuclear decision scenario merits, in itself, wide attention. There are many
such scenarios possible. Bigelow picks one -- an incoming ballistic warhead,
unattributed due to a satellite glitch -- and masterfully proceeds to weave
human drama and uncertainty into the preexisting procedures and
protocols.
"Some commentators believe such a glitch --
accidental or intentional -- is nearly impossible due to satellite
redundancies, etc. As Bigelow portrays, communication systems don't always work
when contingencies occur. Will all these satellites withstand a high-amplitude
solar storm? Maybe, and there's the rub. Humans have a
tendency toward optimism regarding the stability and resilience of complex
systems on which we are utterly dependent.
"In the film, there is not much time available for
the first set of decisions. In fact, the 18 minutes Bigelow provides could be
much less in real life. There could be zerowarning, if a
nuclear weapon were assembled in the U.S. from components smuggled here, or if
undersea drones were used to deliver nuclear weapons to U.S. coastal facilities
such as submarine bases or cities, or if nuclear weapons were brought into U.S.
harbors in shipping containers.
"Sea-launched hypersonic missiles might appear on
radars with very little warning -- perhaps 5 minutes. Cruise missiles launched
from shipping containers on ships could be very close to their targets.
Bigelow's 18 minutes is generous.
"The ground-based mid-course interceptors (GBIs)
portrayed in the film basically don't work. Any weapon which only works about
half the time in highly-scripted test situations is not a weapon which
actually works in the real world. Against real
warheads with decoys, warheads which might come in large numbers and in some
cases will maneuver, anti-missile defense will forever prove impossible for
fundamental physical reasons. (Closing speeds are too fast; the lenses in the
optics have to be too large for interceptors to lift fast enough, etc.)
"For long-range, deeply-submerged torpedoes of
intercontinental range (already deployed by Russia and possibly soon in some
form by China, judging from the 2025 Victory Parade) there will likewise be no
practical defense. The ocean is just too big and too deep. There also is, and
will remain, no effective defense against short-range missiles ofany modern
variety. Trump's 'Golden Dome' is many things, but an effective defense it will
never be.
"What is realistic in the film is that our
political system pretends that these GBI systems do work.
"We" believe they work because "we" have invested so much
money in them, and only a few scientists have the temerity to say they don't
work. The experts allowed to speak with the greatest authority are the ones
being paid to lie. And because we are as a nation scientifically illiterate,
the lies stand.
"But why is there only an 18-minute response
window in this film? Viewers need to zero in on this question. Bigelow's
generals don't provide much of an answer, especially given the missile's
ambiguous origin. If the U.S. were to respond with a nuclear strike against
Russia or China, there is little doubt that these countries' nuclear forces
would destroy the U.S. utterly. A nuclear strike against either of these
countries is, under any circumstances whatsoever, an act of national suicide
for the U.S. Soon North Korea will likely be in that same existentially-dangerous
category, if it is not already there.
"So the temptation to strike back is really the
temptation of national suicide. As irrational as it seems, that suicidal
tendency is indeed hard-wired into U.S. nuclear targeting policies. In this
regard, it does not matter if a committee or a single individual chooses to
respond, or whether this or that nuclear strike package is chosen. The die will
be cast, in either case. What happens then will be up to the "other
side." Would they spare us? Don't count on it.
"Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under
Kennedy and Johnson, told many of us personally that his private advice to the
two presidents he served was tonever, under any circumstances, order the use
of nuclear weapons. For McNamara, there was no 18-minute response
window because in his view, there should never be a response, period. Is then
the entire apparatus of nuclear deterrence a kind of dangerous fiction that
attains its horrific reality by only widespread participation and belief, a
kind of doomsday cult?
"It is easy for many people to say, 'Nuclear
weapons should never be used.' But the fact is that the U.S. government has
definite plans to use weapons under various circumstances if the President so
orders, and to "win" the resulting nuclear war. The
Pentagon views nuclear weapons as weapons of war, and
so does most of Congress.
"The continuity of government (COG) protocols
portrayed in the movie are, right now, woven into the fabric of government, a
shadow thrown on our tattered democracy from a contingent future.
"There is no discussion of nuclear destruction in
this movie, other than an initial casualty estimate. In fact the infrastructure
which supports life in the U.S. is quite fragile. Were the three main U.S.
electrical grids taken out by electromagnetic pulses from high-altitude nuclear
explosions, which is possible, life in the former United States would become very
tenuous.
"For many reasons, it is our belief that only a
very few nuclear weapons -- less than the fingers on both hands -- could end
the United States.
"Viewers, including students, might want to
imagine that the scenes in this movie were occurring in Russia, which lacks a
truly global early-warning satellite system. How should these actors react, if
they were Russian?
"It will be clear to viewers that the response
decisions are going to be based in part on the overall diplomatic context. How
many lines of communication are open? What is the trust level, and by what
verification measures is it maintained? In simple terms, are we at war or are
we at peace?
"Right now, the U.S. is unfortunately conducting a
proxy war with Russia that has seen deep strikes against Russia's strategic
nuclear assets. How does this affect the decision calculus, in Russia and the
U.S.?
"We hope viewers will consider some of these
issues, and students will grapple with them. In our discussions, we will be
mostly in "listening mode" before segueing into the film's relevance
to our local situation in New Mexico, and our own roles in it."
Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study
Group
2901 Summit Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-265-1200 office, 505-577-8563 cell
[VFP-all] The “House of Dynamite” sequel you didn’t know
you needed. Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com
If we pick up where A House of Dynamite ends,
the story becomes one of devastation and cascading crises. Decades of modeling
and simulations based on the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki help us
understand the immediate and longer-term effects of a nuclear explosion. But in
today’s deeply interconnected world, the effects of a nuclear attack would be
far more complex and difficult to predict.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/the-house-of-dynamite-sequel-you-didnt-know-you-needed/?
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English.
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proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel By Edwin
Lyman.
The ‘Zapad’ exercise and how
Lukashenko learned to love the Bomb By Gabriela Rosa-Hernández, Decker Eveleth.
A radical act of cinematic restraint:
How to understand the ending of ‘A House of Dynamite’
By Emily
Faux.
Box office bombs: What I learned
watching 20 nuclear films in a month By Rebecka
Green.
“America and Russia are vastly
over-armed: Nuclear weapons should be banished” by Art Hobson. NWADG (26 August, 2025).
August 6 and 9 marked the 80th anniversary of the
nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s an opportune time
to ponder the global nuclear weapons threat. As a physicist, I’m
acutely aware of this, and of the role my profession played in creating these
weapons.
I’ve devoted part of my life to eliminating this threat. This
included nuclear weapons discussions in my general physics courses and in all
five editions of my published textbook, a six-month sabbatical at the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, publishing (with eight colleagues) an
arms control study titled “The future of land-based strategic missiles,” and
several professional research articles about nuclear weapons issues.
The threat of nuclear war is a leading existential threat to
civilization, as is “conventional” warfare such as we see today in a staggering
list of 61 conflicts across 36 nations (according to the Peace Research
Institute of Oslo). As attested by the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists’ doomsday clock which stands at 89 seconds before midnight, such a
war is more plausible today than ever.
Please read “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie
Jacobsen. It’s a fascinating page-turner. A significant
list of expert advisers ensured technical backup. The book is a
minute-by-minute report of what happens after two intercontinental ballistic
missiles are launched (for unknown reasons) from North Korea. The
book portrays a typical war game scenario of the type used in Defense Department
exercises. Nearly all such “games” lead to civilization’s
destruction within a few hours.
Americans are partly responsible for this threat. We could and
should lead the world toward eliminating nuclear weapons. Such
experts as former Secretaires of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz,
seasoned diplomats and conservative Republicans, have recommended banning all
nuclear weapons.
In 2017, the United Nations overwhelmingly passed the “Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” It’s been signed by 93 nations, but
nearly 100 nations have not yet signed including the 9 nuclear weapons states
and the 32 NATO members. America should lead the world toward
signing this treaty, but, sadly, we haven’t signed. Yet, as
Kissinger and Shultz have pointed out, U.S. security would be enhanced by
international nuclear disarmament.
The U.S. and Russia are vastly over-armed. Both have “triads”
of nuclear weapons. Thus the U.S. has submarine-launched Trident
ICBMs, land-based Minuteman ICBMs, and an aircraft fleet carrying nuclear
gravity bombs.
Under a smart nuclear strategy, we would negotiate the removal of all
land-based ICBMs. Even if we unilaterally ditch these weapons, we
will be more secure without them. Here’s why:
Other nuclear powers know precisely where all our underground
“missile silos” are located. These weapons are vulnerable to an
attack by Russia’s (and probably China’s) highly accurate land-based
ICBMs. This makes our land-based missiles sitting ducks that could,
in the next tense situation, lure Russia into launching a surprise attack that
would destroy these missiles and thus reduce damage to themselves in the coming
war. Similarly, Russia worries about a U.S. attack on Russian
land-based missiles that would “pre-empt” a Russian first strike.
The most powerful and most secure leg of the U.S. triad is our 14 Trident
missile submarines. Each boat can carry 20 ICBMs, each carrying up
to 8 independently targetable 475 kiloton bombs. Each bomb is 31
times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
One submarine can carry 160 such bombs with a total explosive power of
76,000 tons of TNT equivalent. For comparison, the TNT equivalent
exploded by all sides in WW2, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was 3,000
tons. Several Trident submarines are always underwater and totally
invulnerable because no alien power knows where they are.
The U.S. triad’s third branch is the bomber aircraft. These
can be airborne within minutes and can remain aloft indefinitely via air
refueling. Once airborne, they are essentially
invulnerable.
The submarine force is, by itself, sufficient to ensure that other
nations will not attack us with nuclear weapons because our retaliation would
be swift and sure.
China is catching up with the two superpowers. They
currently have only rudimentary air- and submarine-based nuclear weapons, but
they already have a credible land-based force. This is a new and
dangerous nuclear weapons development.
An obvious conclusion is that the USA should lead the way toward
elimination of all land-based strategic nuclear weapons. Without
them, America and the world would be far safer. In fact, America
would be safer if it gave up its land-based missile unilaterally, because this
would eliminate the lure of a disarming first strike by other nations.
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
clock: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
• Report from the Peace Research
Institute of Oslo https://www.prio.org/news/3616.
• A web search can verify all the
military details for USA and Russia. Info on the Chinese triad of
nuclear weapons can be found at https://fas.org/publication/nuclear-notebook-china-2025/.
Nadezhda Azhgikhina. “’We Must
Avert Nuclear Armageddon’: An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky.” ACURA (Aug 03, 2026).
This interview with Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of
Russia’s Yabloko Party, comes in the run-up to national, regional, and
local elections scheduled for September 20. The regime’s failure to achieve its
goals in Ukraine and the increasing costs incurred by its retaliatory strikes
across Russia, on cities and facilities that were not impacted even by […] Read in browser »
“As Fires Rage on Colorado’s Western
Slope, Some Worry About the Region’s Radioactive History” by Parker
Yamasaki. August 21, 2025. The Colorado Sun. Portside Snapshot (8-22-25).
The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds
another variable to the equation, given the high concentration of uranium
mines, mills and disposal sites on the Western Slope and in the Four Corners
region. And: leakage from atom bomb tests. . . .
August 13, 2025
IN THIS BLAST:
- Remembering Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, 80 Years On
- Veterans For Peace in the News
- Think Peace: Member Spotlight on
Douglas Lummis
VETERANS FOR PEACE celebrated our 40th Anniversary at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas July 24-27. Our 2025 convention was packed with meaningful programs connecting past, present, and future, equipping attendees with information, contacts, and tools for change. The intergenerational gathering provided both in-person and online opportunities for education, inspiration, action, and connection. . . .
JUSTIN LOZA, a
post-9/11 veteran member and President of Monterey VFP Chapter 46, carried a
message directly from the VFP convention to a Hiroshima Day commemoration event at home.
Speaking on behalf of VFP:
"I shared the
story of Leon Cloder, a Hiroshima survivor and peace activist whom I met
personally at the convention. Leon was just six years old when the bomb was
dropped. His memories are vivid, from the flash that lit up the sky, to the
chaos that followed, to his father’s choice to turn their shattered home into a
first aid station. Through it all, he said, 'my father kept a peaceful
heart.'
"In the second
half of my speech, I connected Leon’s story to what’s happening right now in
Gaza, where civilians are again trapped with no safe refuge, and where children
and families are bearing the weight of war.
"I ended with a
call to action: for veterans to use our voices to expose the true costs of war
and support the complete elimination of nuclear weapons."
JACK GILROY reported
on the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance organized by VFP Stu Naismith Chapter 92
in Broome County, New York, on August 6, 2025, which also featured speakers who
had presented at our recent convention.
Rachel Clark, Japanese by
birth and American by choice, joined with Japanese resident of Hiroshima, Ken'ichi
Narikawa, for a solemn and informative morning at First Congregational
Church in Binghamton. Rachel riveted the audience with her comments, and
translated Ken'ichi's story of his conversion to nonviolence after 27 years in
the Japanese Navy.
Ken'ichi and others
rang the large bell in memory of the tens of thousands incinerated on August 6, 1945, over
200,000 of whom would die of severe burns, radiation, and leukemia. Three days
later, we did it again in Nagasaki — another civilian town — using a trigger of
plutonium rather than the uranium explosion of the bomb in Hiroshima. It was a
most violent start of the nuclear age.
Ed Nizalowski, a member of
Peace Action/VFP used his soprano sax to give solemnity to the setting.
PAT ELDER reported
on August 6, "Several temporarily blocked the entrance to the Pentagon
this morning with ashes, wearing sackcloths.* Two were arrested, the rest of us
warned. There were about 40 of us." VFP shared the video of this action on Instagram and Facebook. [The biblical reference for this
action can be found in Genesis 37:31-34.]
ADDITIONAL
COMMEMORATIVE activities featured VFP's historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear
sailboat, which arrived in San Francisco and was officially welcomed at Pier 39 (J
Dock) on Tuesday morning, August 5. The new film Golden Rule: The
Journey for Peace was screened in Oakland on Sunday, August 10. On
Friday, August 22, Dennis Bernstein and KPFA’s Flashpoints team
are planning a live broadcast from the boat.
The 34-foot wooden
ketch and her 4-person crew will sail around San Francisco Bay throughout
August, making stops in multiple cities, including San Francisco, Alameda,
Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and San Mateo. Public meetings with local
organizations will feature film screenings and speakers warning about the
growing danger of nuclear war. Speakers will also call for an end to
U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and ICE attacks here in the U.S.
Find additional tour
details at https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org/
HAWAII
VFP Chapter 113's Ann Wright was
one of the presenters in the first two-hour segment of the 24-hour PEACE WAVE coordinated by
World BEYOND War and the International Peace Bureau. As 2025 is the 80th
commemoration of the horrific U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
this first segment, which covered Hawaii and the Eastern Pacific, included
nuclear issues from the Marshall Islands, Big Island and Guahan.
BELOW
are just a few links to the many, many essays and resources shared across peace
and justice networks as the international community marked 80 years since the
horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear
Weapons Will Die First, As They Should by VFP
Advisor Ann Wright [Peace & Planet News, Summer 2025]
- Are We on the Verge of Nuclear War? by VFP
Board Member Gerry Condon [Peace & Planet News, Summer 2025]
- No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives by VFP
Advisor David Swanson [World BEYOND War, August 2, 2025]
- 80 Years after Trinity: Why Was There So Little
Dissent at Los Alamos and What Does It Mean Today? by Eric
Ross [TomDispatch, July 17, 2025]
- How Civil Nuclear Power Funds Nuclear Weapons, 7-minute
investigative video report by Josh Toussaint-Strauss et al. [The
Guardian, July 24, 2025]
- Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha, book by
Robert “Bo” Jacobs [Yale University Press, 2022]
- Silent War: Retelling 80 Years of
the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War, a new film by Dirk van
den Berg and Pascal Verroust. [The original version, In the Shadow
of the Bomb, is made for German-speaking audiences and evokes
literary memories of the 1960s and 70s. It is viewable with English subtitles on Vimeo. Later this
year, an international version of the film will be released.]
- John LaForge. “ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80:
The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima
& Nagasaki.” Consortium News (8-6-25). - After the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki On Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, there then ensued a U.S. propaganda
campaign to claim the slaughter of more than 200,000 people saved lives,
writes John LaForge. Read here...
Aired
PBS American
Experience: Victory in the Pacific. Final Year. May 2,
2005.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pacific/
Commemorating
the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, American Experience presents Victory
in the Pacific, a powerful documentary from producer Austin Hoyt (Reagan,
MacArthur, Chicago: City of the Century). The two-hour program examines the final
year of World War II in the Pacific, including the rationale for using the
atomic bomb, and features the first-hand recollections of both American and
Japanese civilians and soldiers -- even a kamikaze pilot who survived
his failed mission. "In the annals of warfare, the final year of the war
in the Pacific stands alone," says Hoyt. "It would be as brutal as
war gets." Victory in the Pacific traces that fateful
year, from the American capture of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific
in July 1944 to the surrender broadcast of Emperor Hirohito in August 1945.
The
Mariana Islands put Tokyo within range of the B-29
Superfortress, America's sophisticated new long-range bomber. After the firebombing
of Tokyo on March 10, 1945, sixteen square miles of Tokyo lay in ruins,
about one quarter of the city. "When you kill 100,000 civilians, you cross
some sort of moral divide," comments war historian Edward Drea. Conrad
Crane, another war historian, adds, "It's a lot easier to drop an atomic
bomb that's going to kill fewer than that on Hiroshima."
Even
after the devastating firebombing, Japanese leaders did not yield. "These
men are watching Tokyo burn down around them, and it's having no effect on
their position," says Richard Frank, author of Downfall, The End
of the Imperial Japanese Empire. As Emperor Hirohito toured the
destruction in Tokyo, the largest fleet ever assembled — more than 40
carriers, 18 battleships, and 200 destroyers -- approached the Japanese island
of Okinawa. Just 350 miles away from Japan's main islands, Okinawa would serve
as a staging area for an invasion.
The
battle of Okinawa is remembered as one of the most terrible in the
history of warfare. The Japanese decimated American forces from hundreds of
well-fortified and concealed caves in defensive lines that ran the width of the
island. Wave after wave of kamikazes attacked the U.S. Navy that supported the
siege, inflicting the worst Navy casualties of the war: 30 ships sunk and
almost 10,000 troops killed or wounded. After 82 days U.S. Army and Marines had
destroyed the last line of Japanese resistance on Okinawa, cave by cave. Victory
in the Pacific looks at the terrible cost of the battle.
More
than 70,000 Japanese soldiers and their Okinawan conscripts died trying to
defend the island. More than 12,000 Americans died trying to capture it.
President Harry S. Truman and his advisors realized that Okinawa was a glimpse
of what an invasion of Japan would be like. A month after the battle, estimates
of Japanese troops deployed to counter an invasion grew at an alarming rate.
Says historian Edward Drea, "It was very clear that the Japanese intended
to fight to the bitter end."
Victory in the Pacific sees
the authorization to use the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in this context of fierce
Japanese resistance to an invasion. It wasn't so much a "decision,"
notes historian Barton Bernstein, an expert on the bomb, as "the
implementation of an assumption" inherited from the Roosevelt
administration. "It was not a weighty matter," he adds. "In the
framework of mid-1945 no one around Truman had any sustained and serious doubts
about using the bomb." "There's no way that any American president,
faced with the expenditures that had been put into the project, faced with the
casualties in the Pacific, could not have used that bomb," states
historian Conrad Crane.
The
Potsdam Declaration, issued July 26, 1945, called on Japan to surrender
unconditionally and without delay, or risk "prompt and utter
destruction." When the ultimatum arrived in Tokyo, Japan's prime minister,
Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, said the government intended to ignore it. Japan's war
cabinet only began to discuss the Potsdam Declaration after the Soviet Union
entered the war on August 8, two days after an atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima.
The cabinet never considered "unconditional surrender" but debated
whether there would be one of four conditions. "They really lacked reality
picture," comments Japanese historian Haruo Iguchi.
Victory
in the Pacific provides a rare
glimpse of Japanese decision-making in the waning months of the war. Emperor
Hirohito had to intervene twice to break deadlocks in his war cabinet. On
August 14, President Truman received a message from the Japanese government
that he deemed an unconditional surrender. In explaining his defeat, Hirohito
wrote to his son, "Our military placed too much weight on spirit and
forgot about the science."
"Television
often looks at the last year of the war as a series of separate stories -
Okinawa, the kamikazes, the B-29s, the bomb," says American
Experience executive producer Mark Samels. "We wanted to tell a
broader story that embraces them all — how both sides tried to bring this
terrible war to an end."
Victory in the Pacific | Primary Source
Invade
or Bomb?
President
Harry Truman's diary is one source historians have evaluated for
information about his decisions at the end of World War II. Read this excerpt
written in mid-June, while the Battle of Okinawa was drawing to a close
and Truman and his advisers were discussing a Japan invasion plan.
June
17 '45
The
White House Washington
Went
down the River today on the [presidential yacht] Potomac to discuss plan,
issues, and decisions. Took [press secretary] Charlie Ross,
straight thinker, honest man who tells me the truth so I understand what he
means; [staff aide] Matt Connelly, shrewd Irishman, who raises up the chips and
shows me the bugs, honest, fair, "diplomatic" with me; [former
congressman and director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion]
Judge Fred Vinson, straight shooter, knows Congress and how they think, a man
to trust; [special counsel and speechwriter] Judge [Samuel] Rosenman, one of
the best in Washington, keen mind, a lucid pen, a loyal Roosevelt man and an
equally loyal Truman man; [former White House press secretary] Steve Early, a
keen observer, political and otherwise, has acted as my hatchet man, absolutely
loyal and trustworthy, same can be said as about Rosenman.
We
discussed public relations in Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium,
England, and Russia. Food, fuel, transportation and what to do about it.
Japanese War and the relations with China, Russia and Britain with regard to
it, Supreme Commander [Douglas MacArthur] and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna,
brass hat, Five Star McArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges
— they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do.
Mc tells God right off. It is a very great pity we have to have Stuffed Shirts
like that in key positions. I don't see why in Hell [President Franklin]
Roosevelt didn't order [General Jonathan] Wainwright home and let McArthur be a
martyr, guess he was afraid of the Sabotage Press-McCormick-Patterson Axis.
We'd have had a real general and a fighting man if we had Wainwright and not a
play actor and a bunco man such as we have now.
Don't
see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John Pershing,
[Dwight] Eisenhower, [Omar] Bradley and at the same time produce [George]
Custers, [George] Pattons, and [Douglas] McArthurs.
I
have to decide Japanese strategy -- shall we invade Japan proper or shall
we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make
it when I have all the facts. So you see we talk about more that [sic]
"Cabbages + Kings and Sealing wax and things..."
Handwritten
diary pages of Harry Truman, on White House stationery. Source: The Truman
Library.
Now
Streaming
Victory in the Pacific | Primary Source
Negotiating
the Surrender
James
F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, July 3, 1945 to January 21, 1947. U.S.
Dept. of State.
Several
days after the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, Secretary of State
James Byrnes drafted the following letter to a Swiss diplomat serving as an
intermediary in negotiations with the Japanese. At issue in the terms dictating
the end of the war was the Japanese emperor's status and authority, which the
Japanese had expended many months — and many lives — trying
to preserve.
August
11, 1945
Sir:
I
have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of August 10, and in reply
to inform you that the President of the United States has directed me to send
to you for transmission by your Government to the Japanese Government the
following message on behalf of the Governments of the United States, the United
Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and China:
"With
regard to the Japanese Government's message accepting the terms of the Potsdam
proclamation but containing the statement, 'with the understanding that
the said declaration does not comprise any demand which prejudices the
prerogatives of His Majesty as a sovereign ruler,' our position is as
follows:
"From
the moment of surrender the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese
Government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the
Allied powers who will take such steps as he deems proper to effectuate
the surrender terms."
Letter
from James Byrnes to Max Grasali, charge d'affaires ad interim of Switzerland.
August 11, 1945. Source: Truman Library.
[VFP-all] “Afterthoughts on Hiroshima
Day.” Common Dreams 2025.
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From: trianglevfp-request@lists.riseup.net <trianglevfp-request@lists.riseup.net> on behalf of Vicki
Ryder <trianglevfp@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Dear
Friends,
This
article appeared this morning in Common Dreams, and
was written by Eric Ross, an organizer, educator, researcher,
and PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/remember-hiroshima
It's a
good reminder of what lies ahead if we allow those in power to erase the
lessons of history, especially now as our current regime grabs control of the
Smithsonian and our colleges and universities.
See
also: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/trump-administration-smithsonian-exhibits
Never
again! Vicki
“HIROSHIMA,
NAGASAKI, AND GENOCIDE.” By
REBECCA MARIA GOLDSCHMIDT AND SEIJI YAMADA.
The Bomb and Gaza. Counterpunch (8-5-25).
TomGram. “Eric Ross, Hiroshima Remains an Open Wound in Our Imperiled World.” TomD
ispatch. August 12, 2025.
I was
barely a year old when two atom bombs were used to destroy the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just before my birth, my father, then a U.S. Air
Force major, had returned from fighting the Japanese in Burma. I never asked
him what he felt when he heard the news of the devastation of those two cities
and the war-ending moment that followed. Now, of course, I'll never know.
He did, however, take me to World War II movies at the local RKO theater when I
was a kid and I certainly recall that he had no warm feelings for the Japanese.
In those days, we went to Chinese restaurants but never to the one Japanese
restaurant in our neighborhood. That was forbidden.
Still,
the bomb (or perhaps The Bomb), that victory weapon, played a strange role in
my life and the lives of so many other young people like me. As a start, while
the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was certainly hailed in this country
for ending World War II, the mushroom cloud symbol of ultimate nuclear
destruction (and irradiated mutant
monsters) crept into the science fiction films of my
youth, suggesting just how horrific such weaponry might be. And, of course, as
a kid, I lived in a school world where nuclear drills (duck and cover!) were the norm -- though, even then,
the thought that my desk could save me from an atomic explosion was little
short of laughable. And when I walked the streets of New York, signs indicating "fallout
shelters" where one might retreat and hope to survive a nuclear war were
commonplace.
The bomb
as a victory weapon was certainly part of American culture then, but the bomb
as a world-ending nightmare would prove to be a far more meaningful part of my
own life. And add to that, a few strange things. First, despite my father's
anti-Japanese feelings, for a couple of years, as a boy of perhaps 11 or 12, I
ended up (though I no longer have any idea how) with a Japanese pen pal. None of his letters have
survived, but I still remember the thinness of the paper on which he wrote them
in English. (Of course, since I knew no Japanese!) How I was then even
allowed to have such a correspondence I no longer know, but I suspect that he
had a distinct effect on me.
After
all, later in my life, as an editor at Pantheon Books, at the suggestion
of my old friend and ultimate Japan scholar John Dower, I first looked at --
it had been put out in England by then -- and finally published the Japanese
book Unforgettable Fire with its stunningly memorable
drawings by survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. It was, I suspect, the first
time any sizable number of images of the human damage there made it into
mainstream American culture. I then accepted an invitation from the Japanese
editor of that collection to visit his country. Only when I arrived did I grasp
that, shocked by the unimaginable -- an American editor publishing the book --
he intended to take me to Hiroshima and the unforgettable museum there (including that child's charred lunchbox) to show me the devastation my
country had inflicted on that city on August 6, 1945.
Somehow,
nuclear weapons would only spread, first to that other superpower of the Cold
War era, the Soviet Union, and then to seven other countries, including two,
Russia and Israel, now in devastating combat in Ukraine and Gaza. And while the
Israelis have turned Gaza into what looks almost like a nuclear wasteland, Russian
President Vladimir Putin has indeed implicitly threatened to use actual nuclear weapons in
Ukraine, while my country still plans to invest an estimated $1.5 trillion -- no, that is not a misprint --
in the "modernization" of its nuclear forces in the coming decades.
In
short, 80 years after those first nuclear weapons exploded over two Japanese
cities, it seems little short of a miracle that no atomic weapon has ever again
been used. And with that in mind, let TomDispatch regular Eric Ross consider the
strangeness of "remembering" Hiroshima when our country continues to
invest such staggering sums in ever more potentially world-ending weaponry. Tom
“
What Do We Forget When We Remember
Hiroshima? Eighty Years of Talking Peace and
Preparing for Nuclear War” By
Eric Ross.
On
August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American
destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first
victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their
suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki,
devastated three days later in 1945, would be the last places to endure such a
fate.
Within that commemorative framework, Hiroshima has been effectively rendered an
abstraction and reduced to a cautionary tale. With the involuntary sacrifice of
that city and its inhabitants, humanity was offered a profound lesson. In the
ruins of Hiroshima, the world confronted a vision of nothing less than its own
potential end. And awareness of that apocalyptic possibility emerged almost
immediately. The very next day, in fact, the American newspaper PM, based in New York, ran an article
speculating on the catastrophic consequences of an atomic bomb detonating in
the heart of that very city.
Click here to read more
of this dispatch.
VFP-all] “Hiroshima Lives On - in Gaza.”
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Unlike the preserved black-and-white images of
Hiroshima, the scenes from Gaza are not historical—they are part of our daily
reality. And if we dare to compare, the number of victims is not so different:
those in 1945 mostly died instantly (along with those who endured agony before
their last breath); those in Gaza die slowly—by bombs, bullets, starvation, or
while trying to get some food.
In just the past 20 months, Israel has
dropped six
times more
explosives on Gaza than the U.S. dropped on Japan in 1945.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/11/hiroshima-lives-on-in-gaza/
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Journal for Peace and
Nuclear Disarmament is an open access, peer-reviewed
journal publishing theoretical and practical studies on nuclear disarmament and
peace. Aims: “The nuclear
threat will not end as long as nations continue to claim that nuclear weapons
are essential for their national security.” (Nagasaki Peace Declaration, 2017).
The main mission of
the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, edited by the
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), is
to contribute to furthering nuclear disarmament and peace based on both
theoretical and practical studies.
Jimmy Tobias. “The Nuclear Age Reborn.” “The Return
of the Nuclear Threat. “
The
Post-Cold War status quo has broken down.
In its place is a frightening, multipolar arms race. While most of the world looked away, a new nuclear arms
race has broken out between the US, Russia, and China, raising the risk of
nuclear confrontation to the highest in decades. [Excellent brief sketch of our situation: Big power hostility today. The nuclear Triad. Nuclear weapons proliferation. –D].
PREPARING FOR NUCLEAR WAR 2026
Los Alamos Study Group. “House passes requirement to build more than
200 plutonium nuclear warheads.” ACURA (Aug 03, 2026).
Albuquerque, NM — Plutonium warhead cores
(“pits”) are the primary fissile components of all U.S. nuclear weapons. Since
pit production ceased at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver in 1989, the U.S.
has not had a factory to make these components. A $60 billion effort is
underway to provide for not just one but two […] Read in browser »
End
Presidential Control of The Bomb
The Open Mind: “Stopping Nuclear Inevitability.” ARPBS World, 2p.m, August 10, 2025. “At any minute, the President alone can start a
nuclear war. Let’s change that.” Nuclear
Threat Watch @ Win Without War <info@winwithoutwar.org>
End Exclusive Presidential Control
Win Without War. Flash
and fire consumed Hiroshima’s streets when the United States dropped an atomic
bomb 80 years ago this morning. Days later, Nagasaki would also be engulfed in
flames. Upwards of 120,000 people were instantly killed, and many more would
suffer and die in the fallout.
Decades later, the world
has failed to learn the lessons. Today, nine countries — several of
which are already at, or terrifyingly close to, war — possess the destructive
power of 135,000 Hiroshima bombs.[1]
And just last week,
Trump ratcheted up tensions further, ordering two U.S. nuclear submarines near
Russia.[2]
It’s a chilling reminder
that, at any minute, the U.S. President can single-handedly launch a weapon
capable of horrific destruction. No approval from, not even notification to,
the Defense Secretary or Congress is required.
The system is designed
for speed, not clear-headed, democratic decision making. That’s why we need
policies like “No First Use” in place immediately.
The Restricting
First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act (S.192 and H.R.669), would create the
guardrails necessary to stop Trump — or any president — from unilaterally
pushing us down the path to nuclear catastrophe, and it needs your urgent
support.
Even a “small” nuclear
war, where just three percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal is deployed, would
have apocalyptic effects. Millions would be killed on impact, followed by
environmental destruction, famine, and more deaths in the fallout.
The problem? Too
many world leaders and decision-makers are failing to reckon with the
consequences.
That includes too many
members of Congress who have yet to cosponsor the Restricting First
Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, a commonsense approach to ensuring
Congress’s vital and constitutional authority to declare war is fulfilled by
requiring the president to obtain congressional approval before using nuclear
weapons.
People created nuclear
weapons and designed the systems governing their use. Dick, that means people
can change the system — and work to rid the world of this threat entirely.
As the only nation to
have used nuclear weapons in conflict, the U.S. government has a unique
responsibility to enact policies that build a safer and more secure
future. It’s activists like us who will push decision-makers to be the
leaders we need. Will you speak out now?
Eliminating the threat
of nuclear war has been a huge part of Win Without War’s work since our
founding. This week, as we remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and honor the work of the survivors — the hibakusha
— we thank you for joining us.
Thank you for working
for peace,
The Win Without War team
1. International Committee of the Red Cross, “Hiroshima 80 years on: The humanitarian imperative to
eliminate nuclear weapons”
2. The Hill, “Trump escalates nuclear tensions as Russia deadline nears”
Prevent Another Nuclear Mass Murder
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80
John Pilger.
“Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now.”
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass
murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies
that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy,
and target — China. Read here...
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80.
Joe Lauria. “When
Time Stopped in Hiroshima — and When it Was Stolen.” Consortium News.
The first atomic bomb burst at 8:15 a.m. over the city of
Hiroshima leaving its impression on a watch that disappeared 44 years later,
reports Joe Lauria. Read here...
CREATING
A NUCLEAR FREE ZONE
8-6-25 August 6 and 9 mark 80 years since the U.S.
government dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ever since,
absolutely essential to nuclear weaponry has been nuclear energy.
Watch this new 7-minute video by The
Guardian:
Various
U.S. states have been taking positive action on a wide range of issues,
achieving successes at odds with the death-destruction-and-oligarchy agenda of
the federal government. Watch this recent livestream:
One
thing a state can do is make itself a nuclear-free zone.
With one quick action, you can email your
governor and state legislators this message (and add to it anything you like):
As
your constituent, I urge you to pass legislation to make our state a nuclear
free zone, with a ban on nuclear energy and weaponry.
There
is no solution whatsoever to the indisputable problem of nuclear waste
disposal.
There
is no solution to the risk of more Three Mile Island- , Chernobyl- ,
Fukushima-like disasters.
Nuclear
energy is not "green," but slow, dangerous, expensive, and
inefficient.
Solar,
wind, and tide energy solutions have been progressing even faster in reality
than has nuclear energy in propaganda.
Drone
warfare has predictably spread far and wide, turning every nuclear power plant
into a self-imposed nuclear weapon.
Please
let me know your thoughts and your plans.
Please email your governor and state legislators now!
After
doing this action, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it
with your friends.This work is only possible with your financial
support. Please chip in $5 now.
Thank
you! -- The RootsAction team
Background:
>> Harvey Wasserman: "People Died at Three-Mile Island"
>> Netflix: "The Meltdown: Three Mile Island"
>> "Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island"
>> ABC News: "Three Mile Island, site of 1979 nuclear reactor accident,
reopening to power AI"
>> Talk World Radio: "Nuclear Nincompoopery Needs Nullification Now"
>> Harvey Wasserman: "Drone Warfare Has Exploded the Myth of Reactor Safety"
>> WHTM: "Three Mile Island 'no-restart' group calls on
Commissioners"
>> Lynda Williams: "Nuclear Propaganda Exposed"
“80 Years Later: Honor Survivors, Act
for a Safer Future.”
Allen Hester, FCNL
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Tell Congress: Reduce Nuclear Risks Through Diplomacy
Dear Dick, 8-6-25
Eighty
years ago this week, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people.
Survivors—known as hibakusha—have spent their lives advocating for
a world free from nuclear weapons.
80 years after those attacks, we are once again called to
change course to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons through diplomacy.
In just six months, New START—the last remaining
nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia—is set to expire.
Without a new agreement, there will be no limits on the world’s two largest
nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than half a century.
Congress has an opportunity to take a practical step toward
reducing the threat of nuclear use. H.Res. 100 and S.Res. 61 call for renewed arms control
negotiations and sustained nuclear diplomacy with Russia and other
nuclear-armed nations. Urge Rep. Womack
and Sens. Boozman and Cotton to cosponsor this vital resolution to promote
a safer world.
Together,
we can take steps toward building a future free from the threat of nuclear war
Peace
and solidarity, Allen HesterLegislative
Representative, Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending 
FCNL
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