Honoring the Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, America dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, the intense heat of the blast generated a lightning storm and cyclone, while massive fires engulfed the city and its inhabitants. The sunny sky turned black, producing a thick, tarry rain. Hiroshima's population was at that time 350,000. Seventy thousand died immediately from the blast and another 70,000 died within five years from radiation sickness. In Nagasaki, (with a population of 270,000) where the terrain prevented the bomb from doing as much damage, 70,000 people died within the year. Death was often slow, cruel and painful.

Following are excerpts from the accounts of four of the Hibakusha (the Japanese word for atom bomb survivors)...

To see how you can help ensure that we never see another day like that, visit www.StopNewNukes.org.

In December of 2006, Rebecca Griffin of the Peace Education Fund spoke at a press conference staged at the Department of Energy's public hearings on Complex 2030.

Click here to read her statement.