This Sunday, July 11, 4:30p.m.
Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper & Program
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA

Coming to grips with the legacy of “Trinity”, July 16, 1945*.
Another generation looks to abolish nuclear weapons…

“Ban All Nukes Generation:
A New Look at Abolishing Nuclear Weapons”
Kim Thao-Nguyen, Asst. Director for Programs, Emily Gleason, Research Assistant, Project for Nuclear Awareness,
with PowerPoint and movie shorts.

Sunday! Plan to attend the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Supper/Program, the area's longest running on-going program for peace and justice (now in its 3rd decade) at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA, the corner of 37th & Chestnut Street, 2nd Sunday of the month (except August), 4:30PM. Air Conditioned. Easily accessible by public transportation, SEPTA bus #21, www.septa.com

Bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share. Program begins at 5:30P.M.

*On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in a desert region of Alamogordo, New Mexico, called Jornada del Muerta (“Dead Man’s Trail” or “Journey of Death”). The test was code-named “Trinity”. Three weeks after Trinity, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were carried out. J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project which built the first atomic bombs, remembered his reaction to the “Trinity” test in an interview first broadcast as part of an NBC television documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb, produced in 1965: “…We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”

Looking Ahead to the 65th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 – 9. Read the Brandywine Peace Community’s Journey of Death,http://www.brandywinepeace.com/Journey%20of%20Death/JOD%20cover.html, chronicling the building and use of the first atomic bombs, first published in 1985.

Fri., Aug. 6, 8a.m. - Hiroshima Day Peace Demonstration at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA to include noontime nonviolent resistance to U.S.’s chief nuclear weapons contractor and world’s largest war profiteer;
Mon., Aug. 9, 11a.m. - Nagasaki Day ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS demonstration, Phila. City Hall. More at http://www.brandywinepeace.com

Brandywine Peace Community
P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081 – 610-544-1818
brandywine@juno.com www.brandywinepeace.com