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Hibakusha: Doctor helps victims fight discrimination, live active social life
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2007: Aim for a nuclear weapon-free world
Hibakusha: One step forwards, two steps back
Hibakusha: Hope for a time when nuclear weapons are no longer used
Hibakusha: Preserving a true message
Hibakusha: Little girl's courage hits a homer with baseball champ Harimoto
Hibakusha: Creating good from evil -- survivors after the war
Hibakusha: Confronting the reality of atomic devastation
Hibakusha: What about compensation for us?
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Hibakusha: Struggling to protect peace
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Hibakusha: One step forwards, two steps back
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Hibakusha: Creating good from evil -- survivors after the war
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Hibakusha: Confronting the reality of atomic devastation
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Hibakusha: Hope for a time when nuclear weapons are no longer used
The Trinity Site, which marks the world's first nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico. (Mainichi file photo)
"Remember Pearl Harbor."
When I'm covering stories in the United States, this is the response some people give to the call for "no more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis." When it comes to the issue of nuclear weapons, I think Americans are strongly influenced by the theories of justification of their use.
Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2007: Aim for a nuclear weapon-free world
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/...
Americans "were free to say what they think, because they did not think what they were not free to say." -- Leo Szilard
"Had Germany used atomic bombs on two allied cities [during World War II], those responsible would have been 'sentenced to death at Nuremberg and hanged'"
-- Leo Szilard
The illnesses including cancer that veterans of the Iraq invasion and occupation are reporting are the direct result of spiking weapons with uranium. Even the New York Sun, which is to the right of Ivan the Terrible, has taken notice.
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The really stupid U.S. government (Bush regime) has not learned: Pakistan warns US of Asia arms race
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U.S. and India Finalize Controversial Nuclear Trade Pact
The deal could foster greater strategic cooperation between the two nations and open up markets for U.S. energy and defense industries. The so-called 123 agreement still faces significant hurdles, however, notably in Congress, which must approve the accord. Critics say the deal sets a bad example because India will win access to U.S. technology without complying with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which allows cooperation on nuclear energy only when countries pledge not to develop nuclear weapons.
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The New York Times
July 27, 2007
U.S. Announces Nuclear Exception for India
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON, July 27 — Three years after President Bush urged global rules to stop additional nations from making nuclear fuel, the State Department today announced that the administration is carving out an exception for India,
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The human toll on nuclear usage over the last 60 years has not been assessed.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 by LiveScience.com
First Atomic Bomb Test Exposed U.S. Civilians to Radiation
by Ker Than
The world’s first atomic bomb test might have exposed unaware civilians in New Mexico to thousands of times the recommended level of public radiation exposure, according to reconstructed data in a new study.
The research, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that ingestion of radioactive materials-primarily from irradiated rainwater and goat’s milk-might have been a substantial contributor to public radiation exposure that was largely not accounted for.
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US-India Deal Said to ‘Increase Nuclear Danger’
by Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS — The Bush administration’s decision to let India obtain nuclear technology from the United States is renewing long-held fears that it could result in further proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world.
"It will allow India to increase its capacity to make nuclear weapons material," Zia Mian, professor of global security and environment at Princeton University, told OneWorld. "[It] will increase the nuclear danger in South Asia." 0802 01
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But critics of the accord say it’s hard for them to believe that India, which possesses a significant amount of nuclear warheads, would live up to its promise.
"[It] may promote not only a possible arms race between India and Pakistan, but also [between] India and China, as well," said John Boroughs of the New York-based Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy, reflecting on the deal between Washington and New Delhi.
Like many others, both Mian and Boroughs also think the agreement would undermine prospects for global treaties on nuclear restraint and disarmament.
"This is in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1172," said Mian.
The resolution calls upon all states to "prevent the export of equipment, materials or technology that could in any way assist programs in India or Pakistan for nuclear weapons."
The resolution was adopted in 1998 with consensus soon after both India and Pakistan tested their nuclear devices in defiance of international opinion against the spread of nuclear weapons.
Since India’s partition in 1947 when the British ended their colonial rule of the country, India and Pakistan have gone to war with each other three times....
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written in 1995 for the 50th anniversary
of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan
Hiroshima: Last military act of World War II or
first act of the Cold War?
by William Blum
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I spent the day sadly looking at the horrifying photos presented at The Mainichi Daily News
Please spend some time there and think about whether you want your government to re-invigorate the nuclear arms race.
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