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...panel at the Science Center consisted of two family members of Sept. 11 victims and one survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, all of whom spoke out against the military response to the al Qaeda attacks on America, including a war on Iraq...
...combat veteran, I believe that if we do not go after Saddam, we will one day face a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq in our homeland. We need to take the initiative, with or without international support. I was in Hiroshima in 1950, and there the horror was visible five years after the bombing. We don't ever want to see that in this country. It would make the destruction of the World Trade Center look like a church picnic. ANDY EMERY San Marcos, Calif...
...uranium on the black market from former Soviet republics--which U.S. intelligence believes he has not yet succeeded in doing. If he could make such a deal, however, U.S. officials say Iraq could have a crude nuclear weapon in months, with a yield equivalent to the ones that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Like Hiroshima, its sister city in nuclear Armageddon, Nagasaki has made the preservation of the event's memory its legacy. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a brick building of contemporary architecture, documents the bombing and its aftermath. Its exhibits focus on the dangers of nuclear weapons and are remarkably balanced, leaving discussions of the war's politics for history books and scholars. Memorable artifacts include: a wall clock, its face busted, stopped at exactly 11:02 a.m.; a melted rosary from the Urakami cathedral; and children's crumpled clothing. Television screens showing footage of the bomb's wasteland are dwarfed...
...moral: there is no free lunch, not even if it's vegetarian. For now, man is perched at the top of the food chain and must live with his choice to feed on the living things further down. But even to raise the question of a harvester Hiroshima is to show how far we have come in considering the humane treatment of that which is not human. And we still have a way to go. "It may take a while," says actress and vegetarian Mary Tyler Moore, "but there will probably come a time when we look back...