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...both fitting and macabre. Last Thursday the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb in the 20-to 150-kiloton class under the desert of Yucca Flat, Nev. The test blast was the eleventh this year, but it came on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and on the day the U.S. grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement faced its first real test of political strength...
...select group of 15 U.S. Army officers went to Livermore, Calif, last year to do what no one had done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: set off nuclear weapons in a battlefield situation. The action took place, TRON-like, entirely with in the circuitry of a large research computer, but the officers sitting in front of the machine's display screens were not just playing video games. They were in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Pentagon's request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared...
...President Reagan and insisting that Government spending on nuclear arms be shifted to social services. Activist Randall Forsberg, referring to last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejection of a freeze resolution, said, "We will remember that vote in November." Other speakers remembered August 1945: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings spoke in Japanese, translated for the crowd, of their firsthand visions of "a living inferno...
...victims of both sides," asking his hearers to think "once again about the absurd and always unjust phenomenon of war, whose scenario of death and sorrow could be averted through the means of the negotiating table." He observed that "we are not facing terrifying spectacles such as those of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but each time that we risk man's life, we trigger mechanisms that lead to such catastrophes...
Crimson: It's been 37 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why are we now seeing such an outpouring of public concern over the dangers of nuclear war? Do you see this movement as some thing which has been building for a long time of as a transitory reaction to Reagan Administration rhetoric...