Hiroshima

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The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Atomic, Veterans Day, Nuclear, Veterans, Coverup, World War II, Media News

This country rushed into the nuclear age with its citizens having neither a true understanding of the effects of the bomb on human beings, nor why the atomic attacks drew condemnation around the world.

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Obama Asked To Visit Hiroshima Or Nagasaki, Japanese Atomic Bomb Cities

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...

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Hiroshima 2020?: City Reportedly Considering Bid For Summer Olympics

Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Olympics, Chicago, Hiroshima Olympics, Hiroshima Summer Olympics, Hiroshima 2020, Hiroshima, Summer Olympics, Japan, Rio De Janeiro, World News

The Japanese city of Hiroshima is considering a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, according to Kyodo News and Japan Today. Up to 140,000 people ...

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The Stones of the Golden Women: Requiem for Tsunamis Past and Present

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: American Samoa, Natural Disaster, Indonesia, Tsunami, Hiroshima, Earthquake, Georgianne Nienaber, Samoa, Stones of the Golden Women, A-Bomb, Pen, Khwaiyun Lukjan, Kurotaro Kurosaka, Moken, World News

The conference on Culture and Natural Disaster was named "Screamed, Survived, Start Anew." A Thai novelist narrated his description of the tsunami of December 26, 2004.

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A 9/11 Reality Check

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Hiroshima, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Vietnam, Anniversary, World War II, World Trade Center, Politics News

What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...

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In Hiroshima

Ann Wright | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima Atom Bomb, Nuclear War, Hiroshima Anniversary, Hiroshima, US World War 2, US Atom Bomb, World News

I am in ancient Japanese city of Hiroshima for the annual ceremonies on Aug. 6 to honor the souls of over 140,000 Japanese, South Koreans and Chinese who died 64 years ago due to atomic bombs.

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Hollywood and Hiroshima: When the White House Censored the First Nuclear Film

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Hiroshima, Nuclear, Hollywood, A-Bomb, Harry Truman, Dr. Strangelove, Rhapsody in August, Black Rain, The War Game, The Beginning of the End, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Media News

Creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threat. What they share, with rare exceptions, is an avoidance of the specific subject of Hiroshima.

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The Day After Hiroshima: When the Atomic "Cover-Up" Began, 64 Years Ago

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspaper, Coverup, Nagasaki, Media, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Media News

The Truman announcement of the atomic bombing firmly established the nuclear narrative. Journalists had to follow where the Pentagon led, and most endorsed the use of the bomb against Japan.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan Project, H Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Anniversary, World War II, Nagasaki, Nuclear Bomb, Pentagon, Nazi Bomb, Truman Hiroshima, Harry Truman, Soviets, President Jimmy Carter, President Truman, Russian Nuclear Posture, Pentagon Papers, Politics News

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Frida Berrigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Hiroshima Anniversary, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, World News

Sixty-four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we need more than symbols of peace. Memories of the destruction fade, while the terror of nuclear annihilation seems to have worn off almost completely.

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For 64th Anniversary: The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up -- And the Nuclear Fallout for All of Us Today

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Nagasaki, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima Pictures, Hiroshima Anniversary, Nuclear Proliferation, World News

For decades after the atomic attacks on Japan, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film that documented the bombing and its effects.

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Forgettable Fire: On Not Remembering Hiroshima

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Nuclear Proliferation, Hiroshima Anniversary, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Living News

As a young man, I had the Bomb on my brain. In my dreams, I could feel its searing heat and watch a mushroom cloud rise on the horizon. My dreams were nothing compared to those of America's top strategists.

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The Bomb at 64: Let's Retire It

William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, John F. Kennedy, Anti-Nuclear Summit, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Jimmy Carter, Sam Nunn, Hiroshima Anniversary, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

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Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Atom Bombs Was Right Decision According To Majority Of Americans: Poll

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hiroshima Nagasaki, Hiroshima Bomb, Japan, World War II, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, North Korea, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima Nagasaki Support, World News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A majority of Americans surveyed believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, but su...

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Start a Revolution With A Video -- A 17 Year-Old Wins National Competition

Steven Crandell | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Contest, Video, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, President Obama, Nagasaki, Erik Choquette, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Teenagers, World News

The most effective way to start a revolution in the 21st century is with a camera and an internet connection, as Erik Choquette proves with an award-winning video on nuclear weapons.

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Designer Issey Miyake: I'm A Hiroshima Survivor

New York Times | Issey Miyake | Posted 08.14.2009 | Style

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On Aug. 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on my hometown, Hiroshima. I was there, and only 7 years old. When I close my eyes, I still see thi...

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North Korea Weighs Nuclear Option as Solution to its Economic Crisis

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea Missile, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea Nuclear Program, Hiroshima, North Korean Crisis, North Korean Economy, North Korean Nuclear Test, Nagasaki, North Korea Missile Test, North Korea, World News

We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.

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North Korea's Bomb -- and the "Original Sin" of Hiroshima

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: North Korean Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, World War II, World News

I'm not saying that there is nothing scary about North Korea getting the bomb but it is almost impossible for us to work our will on this abroad given our, ahem... track record.

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Why Did Jon Stewart Apologize?

Dennis Perrin | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Stewart, Hiroshima, Comedy Central, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Snl, War Criminal, The Daily Show, Media News

Nothing sets domestic reactionaries off like a "media elite liberal" like Stewart besmirching our nation's fine name and God-fearing reputation.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Bush Administration, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sean Hannity, Hiroshima, Waterboarding, Paul Begala, Atomic Bomb, Torture, Home News

Mark it down. The bar has been set. We now have the test by which we judge all actions taken by the leaders of America: Is it worse than burning 120,000 people to death? Call it the Buchanan Hiroshima-Nagasaki Standard. Appearing on Hardball this week to defend the Bush administration's use of torture, Pat Buchanan tried to offer a little perspective: "Is waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a worse thing than dropping two atomic bombs on people and burning 120,000 people to death? Sending 40,000 more to death by radiation?" I guess he preferred that WWII reference to the one from Paul Begala about us executing Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. Elsewhere on the torture front, Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity. A little like one of those charity auctions where celebrities agree to have lunch with the highest bidder. Only with a suffocation appetizer.

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Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Rebecca Bird, Alan Greenspan, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Paul Kopeikin, Living News

In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint.

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