Word: hiroshima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shibama, who taught English at Hiroshima Girls' School, survived the aftermath of the bombing, which immediately killed 350 of her students, by walking ten miles to the country residence of her father, who nursed her to health...
Speakers at the demonstration included Helen Caldicott, physician at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Michio Kaku, associate professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York; Rep. Mel King (D-South End); and several Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Most listened silently and tearfully, however, as Hiroshima survivor Kazu Shibama, 74, detailed the events of August...
...humanity, the aggressor included; (2) that no defense was possible against them; and (3) that, for both these reasons, they could have no conceivable political or military utility--except to deter otheres also armed with them. These assumptions, still widely held a third of a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, underpin our approach to SALT and explain the critical importance which we attach to it both in our defense planning and in our relations with the Soviet Union...
...deliberately impressive array of speakers--a Nobel laureate in medicine, a retired admiral (defector from the military-industrial establishment), two pioneers in the development of nuclear weapons, researchers of Hiroshima and of the nuclear tests in Utah, the top names at Harvard Medical School--viewed the possibility of nuclear holocaust from a variety of traditionally antithetical perspectives...