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5 October 2005
from Man was Made to
Mourn: A Dirge by Robert Burns
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
http://www.robertburns.org/works/55.shtml
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RANDOM NOTES SIXTY YEARS
AFTER THE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR
This edition of Truffulaut
has been delayed until now. I was
trying, in the words of the ancient Egyptian scribe, "To dot all the ibises and
cross all the crocodiles."
World War II ended
slightly over sixty years ago. Those of
you who were alive at the time survived the first nuclear war. The rest of us are descendants of people who
survived the first nuclear war. After
August 1945, war was obsolete. Here in
the USA, we have clung to our blood lust.
There are citizens of other nations likewise commenting upon their own
homes.
I will not comment on
whether or not dropping the bombs was the right thing to do. It has already been done. One of the best comments I heard on the
morality of it came from my father, who was in seminary at the time. His class on Ethics at Perkins School of
Theology was asked if using the bomb was ethical. One student raised his hand and said, "Much of my family lived in
Hiroshima and was killed by the explosion, so I am too emotionally involved to
answer that question objectively."
Some may wish to sit and
argue the pros and cons of Truman's decisive action. The more arduous challenge is learning how to live together in
peace.
Is it possible for us to
live together in peace? Do not ask the
current Administration.
While Congress is on vacation,
the Bush administration is planning to quietly eliminate most State Department
arms control offices, phasing out senior positions and merging personnel and
functions with nonproliferation and other units... The changes appear to reflect a determined shift by the
administration away from decades of U.S. focus on promoting international arms
control agreements.
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005/8/3/3637A0F7-3541-4AEA-A714-8E8CAD074B0C.html
Beginning To Transform the
State Department to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/50371.htm
Hill Weakens Uranium Export Rules
President [sic]
George W. Bush signed legislation into law Aug. 8 relaxing limits on the export
of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the
Netherlands. Although some U.S. officials support the change as critical to
nuclear medicine, a bipartisan group of senators has charged that the
modification will make it easier for terrorists to obtain fissile material for
nuclear weapons.
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005_09/HillWeakensUraniumExport.asp
Why does it matter if
enriched uranium is exported?
The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagaski
United States Strategic Bombing Survey
United States Government
Printing Office
Washington: 1946
Our national policy has
consistently had as one of its basic principles the maintenance of peace. Based on our ideals of justice and of
peaceful development of our resources, this disinterested policy has been
reinforced by our clear lack of anything to gain from war -- even in
victory. No more forceful arguments for
peace and for the international machinery of peace than the sight of the
devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have ever been devised. As the developer and exploiter of this
ominous weapon, our nation has a responsibility, which no American should
shirk, to lead in establishing and implementing the international guarantees
and controls which will prevent its future use.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/AtomicEffects/AtomicEffects-Fwd.html
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Nagasaki, where 150,000
were killed, is often forgotten.
It is imperative that we
join hands with all peace-loving people around the world and strive together
for the realization of lasting world peace.
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museume01.html
A Nagasaki Report
George Weller -- September
8, 1945
American George Weller was the
first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on
the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote
a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the
Occupation's General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed.
[NOTE:
The following links are apparently no longer functional. The reports are likely to be collected into
a book. Andrew Weller, George's son,
found carbon copies of the censored documents and sold them to a Japanese
newspaper this year. When the book is
published, I will tell you.]
Part I
Nothing but rats live in the
debris choked halls. On the opposite
side of the valley and the Urakame river is a three story concrete American
mission college called Chin Jei, nearly totally destroyed.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20050809p2g00m0fe023000c.html
Part II
According to
Japanese doctors, patients with these late developing symptoms are dying now a
month after the bombs fall, at the rate of about 10 daily.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20050809p2g00m0fe022000c.html
Part III
More pieces to the
broken mosaic of history are supplied by prisoners in the liberated, but still
unrelieved camps on Kyushu, Japan's southernmost island.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20050809p2g00m0fe021000c.html
Part IV
The atomic bomb's peculiar
"disease," uncured because it is untreated and untreated because it
is not diagnosed, is still snatching away lives here.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20050809p2g00m0fe020000c.html
Wikipedia List of Nations with Nuclear Weapons
The United States developed
the first atomic weapons during World War II out of the fear that Nazi Germany
would first develop them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_nuclear_weapons
Nuclear Weapons Still Key to U.S. Security
It is initiating what it is
calling the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program. The program's aim would be to replace the existing stockpile with
weapons that are produced more easily, readily available, made of
environmentally safe materials, and whose safety and reliability could be
assured for as long as the United States requires nuclear forces.
I
am not sure what an environmentally safe nuclear bomb is. Nuclear warfare is bad for the environment. Disarmament is an environmental issue.
http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive/2005/Jul/18-696480.html
International
Atomic Energy Associate (IAEA)
The IAEA is the
world's center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world's "Atoms for Peace"
organization in 1957 within the United Nations family. The Agency works with its Member States and
multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure, and peaceful nuclear
technologies.
http://www.iaea.org/
Ploughshares Fund
The Ploughshares Fund
is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the
spread and use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and other weapons
of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass
destruction.
http://www.ploughshares.org/about_us.php?a=1&b=0&c=0
U.S.
Arms Control & Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
The mission of the
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is to strengthen the national
security of the United States by formulating, advocating, negotiating,
implementing and verifying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and
disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements. In so doing, ACDA ensures that arms control is fully integrated
into the development and conduct of United States national security policy.
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/acda/
Center for Contemporary Conflict
As the research
institute of the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of National Security
Affairs, the CCC analyzes current and emerging threats to U.S. national
security. We convey our assessments
through briefings, conferences, publications, our ship-board Regional Security
Education Program, and our e-journal Strategic Insights.
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/
From Strategic Insights:
Assessing the International Response to
the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
(The views
expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the
views of NPS [Naval Postgraduate School], the
Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.)
The Bush
administration's recently declared doctrine of preemption, coupled with
Congress's decision to repeal the Spratt-Furse amendment and fund the study
(and potential development) of new nuclear weapons, is eliciting a negative
response from members of the international community.
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/jun/marvinJun04.asp
FirstWatch International [FWI]
FWI is a research
consultancy that supports the nonproliferation efforts of governments,
international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, educational
institutions, and commercial defense organizations. FWI serves its clients by conducting nonproliferation and WMD
threat analysis. We specialize in using
open sources to assess the proliferation potential of states, non-state actors,
industries, and companies.
http://www.firstwatchint.org/
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