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HIROSHIMA 2011
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vincent scotti eirene | 08.07.2011
A reflection on the cold war and the new production of nuclear weapons by vincent scotti eirene on behalf of the pittsburgh catholic worker.   by vincent scotti eirene PHOTO Thomas Merton and the Nuclear Era . On Sunday afternoon “Little Boy” was brought out in procession and devoutly tucked away in the womb of Enola Gay. That evening few were able to sleep. They were as excited as little boys on Christmas Eve. At 3:09 they reached Hiroshima and started the bomb run. The city was full of sun. The fliers could see the green grass in the gardens. No fighters rose up to meet them. There was no flack. No one in the city bothered to take cover. The bomb exploded within 100 feet of the aiming point. The fireball was 18,000 feet across. The temperature at the center of the fireball was 100,000,000 degrees. The people who were near the center became nothing. The whole city was blown to bits and the ruins all caught fire instantly everywhere, burning briskly. 70,000 people were killed right away or died within a few hours. Those who did not die at once suffered great pain. Few of them were soldiers. from "the original child bomb" a poem by thomas merton COLD WAR PILGRIMAGE 1986 i started my trek two mile trek thru farm with a home made ladder spray painted black so as not to reflect the light. a herd of cows came racing up to me, look at me with curiosity, i whispered to them, "i am doing this for you too. realizing i had no food for the cows ran away sounding like thunder. i nerviously looked up at the guard tower and noticed the search like had stopped straffing the field, aha the guard had fallen asleep.i moved quickly now but steady. i hit the first fence, leaned up the ladder gently and felt like i flew up and over the fence and razor wire. once i hit the ground the motion detectors set of the alarms and the sleepy faculity came to life. out
it was jan. 1st 1986, the cold war seemed endless and i have trespassed on our nations only nuclear bomb factory, pantex nuclear bomb factory in amarillo, texas. my punishment for this intrusion was a year in prison, i served 10 months. the cold war ended but a sense of futurelessness did not... 1986 to 2011 decades would go by, anti-nuclear resisters migrated to anti-iraq war activities and the environment. but nuclear weapons never sleep, nor do they need an enemy. So under the START treaty the" rehabbing " of aging nuclear weapons was allowed. read making new weapons. the new pantex, the new nuclear bomb factory in kansis city, missouri. did not come out of nowhere. but is part of decades of research about the improving of nuclear weapons and there delivery systems. including unmanned flying vehicle - drones developped at CMU.
today the new pantex is secretly preparing the produce new nuclear weapons (as this goes to pressseveral new nuclear reisters have been released at there trial foe crossing the line at hell's new kitchen, the judge stated, I agree with you go and do more:) The Kansas City Plant is responsible for the production and assembly of approximately The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a division of the U.S. The new Kansas City facility is one of several where new nuclear weapons projects are *** PHOTO of lone pine by Ko Sasaki RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan—In the quiet hours just after dawn, Yasumori Matsuzaka drives through the ruins of his hometown, past the gutted hospital and the mounds of splintered wood and shattered concrete.The object of his pilgrimage: a tree. The solitary pine, which towers 100 feet above this pulverized city's waterfront, is all that's left of a grove of roughly 70,000 trees that once lined the beach here, and which his ancestors helped plant more than two centuries ago. july 9, 2011 wall street journal the lone pine, to me, symbolizes the peace movement. with the US involved in four wars, the movement is exhausted. the drones bombing pakistan, the continuing wars in iraq and afganistan. the "humanitarian bomb" of lybia. now, now the revealing of new nuclear weapons production. to what end, for what enemy. but we rush in to save the lone pine the end |
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There will be a peace rememberance at 30th Street Bridge
Submitted by RichardKanePA on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 10:28amThanks Vincent Eirene, I wish I had your email and phone to let you know your pictures didn't send
In Philadelphia there will be August 9,a candlelight remembrance on 3Oth Street Bridge, on Market Street,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/area-peace-events-commemorating-anniversary-...
I thought I knew most of what I needed to until I read an Amazing link new insight on the dropping of the bomb,
http://my.voyager.net/~yjk/Hiroshima%20Remembrance%20Address_8-6-04.html
The natives of Bikini Island had their island stolen, so the US could conduct H-bomb where the inhabitants didn't have the political clout to complain loudly enough.
Then they were dosed with radiation because the scientists got tired of waiting for the wind direction to change and were amazed to discover the part of the lithium wasn't filler but part of the reaction. In the beginning Holocaust remembrances didn't include the Gypsies being even more systematically slaughtered. The those who lost their land for testing purposes need to be part of future Atomic remembrances. The fist H-bomb was the dirtiest H-bomb ever tested. Ever since the first dirty H-bomb they were careful to maximize explosive power while minimizing the radiation.
Ominously scientists weren't sure that the nitrogen in the atmosphere might not be part of the first "Trinity" nuclear test, consuming the whole earth. From the day of this first safety assessment to today we have no new information that the Hadron Collider tests are safe. We could get a horrible surprise 1000 years from now, a lot sooner if we keep testing,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/july-25-grimmer-omen-august-6-0
Every July 25, the day of the first nuclear explosion, I think there should be a remembrance followed by August 6 Hiroshima and August 9 Nagasaki.
Richard Kane
Bad link
Submitted by RichardKanePA on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 10:31amFor anyone who looked at the above before August 9, a very touching article on the bomb had a broken link.
Please click on it again,
http://my.voyager.net/~yjk/Hiroshima%20Remembrance%20Address_8-6-04.html
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