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...organization's first conference, scheduled for late March at Airlie House near Washington, some 60 participants from Japan, France, Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union will discuss the medical history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and attempt to determine what the effects of a future thermonuclear war might be. They also hope to present their findings to congressional committees and Reagan Administration officials...
According to U.S. experts, a 20-megaton nuclear warhead, 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, detonated over Boston would destroy everything within a four-mile radius. Up to ten miles away from ground zero, fire storms would devastate all buildings and trees. Of the 3 million inhabitants of metropolitan Boston, 2.2 million would be killed outright. Almost every survivor would be maimed, burned or in shock. Of the 6,000 physicians in the area, only 900 would be fit enough to treat the injured. In time, survivors would develop new and virtually incurable ailments...
...finest and most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...characterizations of Asians as cunning, inscrutable, and subhuman are integrally tied to American society's past condonement of the anti-Asian violence and Exclusion Acts (which prohibited Asian immigration) at the turn-of-the-century, the internment of 112,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the massacre at My Lai, and the present ghetto conditions of all urban Asian communities in the U.S. History clearly shows that our fears are legitimate...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 are limited nuclear war. It is limited because the United States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff