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102 Hiroshima survivors on a mission in India

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:13:30 -0000

In a unique move to propagate the message of nuclear weapon free world, 102 Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors have reached Kochi.
With India making the right moves to strike the nuke deal, the Japanese Hibakushas or the atomic attack survivors are worried about the safety of the world.

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The fragility of the global nuclear order - The Boston Globe

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:26:07 -0000

IN GOOD TIMES, unambiguous signs that the structural pillars of a system are at risk are frequently disregarded or downplayed. The current crisis in the global financial system is an apt occasion on which to pause to consider warning signs of risk to the global nuclear order.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy warned that on the then-current trajectory there could be 25 nuclear-weapons states by the end of the 1970s. His warning helped motivate a surge of initiative culminating in the 1968 Nonproliferation Treaty. Today, 189 nations, including scores that have the technical capability to build nuclear arsenals, have renounced nuclear weapons.

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The Associated Press: Burundi ratifies global ban on nuclear test blasts

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:54:36 -0000

Burundi has ratified a global ban on nuclear test explosions and has become the 145th nation to fully endorse the accord.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization says the Central African country ratified the treaty earlier this week.

But the Vienna-based organization is still urging key holdout nations to ratify the pact. Forty-four states that possess nuclear technology need to both sign and ratify it before it can take effect — and only 35 have done so.

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montanakaimin.com - Nuclear disarmament encouraged by Hiroshima survivor

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:11:22 -0000

Shigeko Sasamori was 13 years old when America dropped “Little Boy” on her hometown of Hiroshima.

“My face was an all black ball, like a basketball,” she said, adding that she could not open her eyes or walk.

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A-bomb survivors tour world for peace - UPI.com

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:34:35 -0000

A ship filled with survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II began a worldwide voyage Sunday to spread a message of peace.

The 103-day Peace Boat tour, with some 100 survivors of the attacks, seeks to abolish nuclear arms worldwide by sharing victims' personal stories, Japan's Kyodo News service reported.

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Editorial - Let’s Hear It for New Zealand - Editorial - NYTimes.com

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:58:16 -0000

If you are feeling anxious — and you should be — about the world’s appetite for nuclear weapons, there is a bit of good news. More countries than we ever expected are refusing to be pressured by the United States and India to approve an ill-conceived nuclear deal.

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The CIA and the AQ Khan nuclear network - The National Newspaper

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:07:36 -0000

Under pressure from the CIA, the Swiss government destroyed thousands of documents that would have revealed the CIA's relations with a family a Swiss engineers, Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, who are suspected of supplying Iran and Libya with nuclear technology, The New York Times reported. Last May, when the Swiss president announced the documents' destruction, he claimed that it was to make sure that detailed plans for nuclear weapons never fell into the hands of terrorists. The real explanation, according to US government officials, was that the United States had urged that the files be destroyed in order to conceal ties between the Tinners and the CIA.

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AmericanHeritage.com / Atomic Aftermath

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:08:02 -0000

The profound shock felt in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August rippled outward to the rest of the world, less destructive but hardly less psychologically powerful for its distance from its source. Two days after the bombing, an editorial writer for the Australian Courier-Mail was dumbstruck:

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Charge over anti-nuclear protest

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:10:58 -0000

A man has been charged with obstructing a highway after the entrance to Devonport Dockyard was barricaded by a group of anti-nuclear campaigners.

Police were called to the dockyard's Camel's Head gate in Plymouth at 0720 BST on Friday after protesters tied ladders together to block the entrance.

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Anti-nuclear protest at dockyard

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:10 -0000

The entrance to Devonport Dockyard has been barricaded by a group of anti-nuclear campaigners.

Police were called to the dockyard's Camel's Head gate in Plymouth at 0720 BST after protesters tied ladders together to block the entrance.

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Hanford News: Olympia reconsiders nuclear free zone ordinance

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:30:40 -0000

The Olympia City Council is reconsidering an ordinance that declared the city a nuclear free zone.

A city council committee will discuss repealing the ordinance at a Tuesday meeting.

Council members say a number of people have called and e-mailed asking the council to repeal the 3-year-old measure.

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If Los Alamos is secure, I'm an A-bomb | Chris Ayres - Times Online

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:33:47 -0000

Chances are you didn't pay much attention to a story in last week's edition of the Albuquerque Journal regarding the Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the Manhattan Project in the Second World War. It revealed that after 20 years and $350 million, scientists at the vast 40 sq mile atom bomb factory in the New Mexico desert finally plugged in and switched on a brain-meltingly complex new X-ray machine known as the dual-axis radiographic hydrotest facility (DARHT, for short)

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Remembering Hiroshima — assessing nuclear dangers - SantaFeNewMexican.com

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:20:38 -0000

Sixty-three years ago this month, the United States was the first (and last, so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war, detonating two warheads in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Tens of thousands were killed instantly, and by the end of 1945 another 200,000 had died from radiation-related ailments. This somber anniversary provides an opportunity to assess the range of nuclear threats bedeviling international relations and threatening the future, and a chance to recommit to the work of nuclear disarmament.

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Hibakusha tells story of how atomic bombing led to life of suffering for unborn sister - Mainichi Daily News

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:36:56 -0000

Hiroko Ikeda's fate was sealed before she was even born. Exposed to radiation while still in her mother's womb after the bombing of Nagasaki, she suffered with frequent convulsions for many years until her death earlier this year, as her brother Teruo Deguchi, 72, explained to a local junior high school on Saturday.

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The Associated Press: Nagasaki mayor urges nuclear weapons ban

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:36:01 -0000

Nagasaki's mayor commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the world's second atomic bomb attack on Saturday with a call for stricter measures against North Korea, Pakistan and Israel for their possession of nuclear weapons.

A moment of silence was observed throughout Nagasaki in southern Japan at 11:02 a.m., the time in 1945 when a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing about 74,000 people. The attack came three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, killing at least 140,000.

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John Pilger: The lessons that should be learnt from Hiroshima | Comment is free | The Guardian

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:40:18 -0000

The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East.

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio, whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

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Ronald Hoffman: The Unholy Trinity

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:31:55 -0000

World War Two certainly did not end with a whimper, but with a bang. Two very large bangs -- three if you count the Trinity test blast (and you should). The war drums have continued banging ever since.

What could have been one of the more joyous dates in history -- the anniversary of the end of the last Great War, World War Two -- is, instead, a time of deep reflection about how it ended, and what it started.

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OpEdNews: 63 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "The Last Best Chance"

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:20:00 -0000

Sixty-three years ago this week war became obsolete in man's quest to resolve conflict. On August 6, 1945 and three days later August 9, 1945 the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan were destroyed by the first atomic weapons used in war. The weapons, small and crude weapons by todays standards killed 90,000 and 40,000 people instantly and caused the deaths of 200,000 by the end of 1945 and an additional tens of thousands more over the next years.

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Nuclear ban? Start with U.S. -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:16:18 -0000

Wednesday is the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and an appropriate time to reflect upon the persistence of nuclear danger. The world's nine nuclear powers continue to cling to some 27,000 nuclear weapons, almost all of them more deadly than that first atomic bomb, which annihilated an estimated 140,000 Japanese men, women, and children. They do so even as most people recognized long ago that nuclear war spells doom.

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George Monbiot: We lie and bluster about our nukes - and then wag our fingers at Iran | Comment is free | The Guardian

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:23:19 -0000

What is the Iranian government up to? For once the imperial coalition, overstretched in Iraq and unpopular at home, is proposing jaw, not war. The UN security council's offer was a good one: if Iran suspended its uranium enrichment programme, it would be entitled to legally guaranteed supplies of fuel for nuclear power, assistance in building a light water reactor, foreign aid, technology transfer and the beginning of the end of economic sanctions.

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