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SUMMARY:Hiroshima & Nagasaki Evening Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of conversation about the longstanding impacts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, and the current state of nuclear weapons. \nOn August 6\, 1945\, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A few days later\, on August 9th\, the USA dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. These bombs were glorified to be the conclusion of WWII\, and are inhumanely remembered by many Americans as making us saviors. In reality\, Japan was going to surrender from WWII with or without these bombs being used\, and because they were used\, more than 200\,000 people were instantly killed\, with tens of thousands more dying due to related causes in the following years. \nIn this conversation\, we will approach the political\, societal\, and personal aspects of the atomic bomb use in 1945\, the lasting impacts that this decision caused\, and the present day threats of nuclear weapons. This conversation will center on images and stories compiled by Nihon Hidankyo – followed by a full-group discussion on these topics. We hope this dialogue will bring people together to build trust\, educate about the threat of nuclear weapons and war\, and bring confidence in taking action to ensure a secure\, peaceful\, and prospering future for all.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/hiroshima-nagasaki-evening-dialogue/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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SUMMARY:Hiroshima Day Vigil at Park Square in Pittsfield\, MA
DESCRIPTION:Via Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice\n\n“There will be a Hiroshima Day Vigil that Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the sidewalk around Park Square in Pittsfield\, MA. At 8:15 a.m.\, the time the atomic bomb fissioned above Hiroshima\, there will be 5 minutes of silence. That bomb alone killed about 140\,000 human beings. This will be the 44th consecutive Hiroshima Day Vigil at Park Square.”
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/hiroshima-day-vigil-at-park-square-in-pittsfield-ma/
LOCATION:Park Square\, Pittsfield\, Park Square\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hiroshima Day: War is Obsolete
DESCRIPTION:Join the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council for their annual observance of the Hiroshima bombings.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/hiroshima-day-war-is-obsolete/
LOCATION:Bend in the Road Beach\, Edgartown\, MA\, 02539\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250806T120000
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SUMMARY:Boston Hiroshima-Nagasaki 80th Anniversary Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nA coalition of Boston area peace\, justice and environmental organizations are preparing a major event to mark and to build from the 80th anniversaries of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Boston area events on August 6 will be one of many across the state and around the world urging that nuclear weapons be abolished to help ensure human survival. \nOver the past 80 years\, many Japanese A-bomb survivors have transformed their excruciating physical and emotional traumas into the world’s most powerful force for nuclear weapons abolition\, forging the still very fragile the “nuclear taboo.” Their basic message has been that nuclear weapons and human beings cannot coexist.” For their courageous and inspired campaigning\, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this past December. \nThose two primitive A-bombs destroyed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and took the lives of more than 200\,000 Japanese citizens – young and old – almost immediately. Tens of thousands more over time due to radiation exposure. In every country that has since developed nuclear weapons\, including the United States\, citizens have been killed as a result of uranium mining\, nuclear weapons testing\, and the weapons production. \nWe are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Manhattan Project began developing nuclear weapons. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have set their Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight – annihilation. Following the pattern of dozens of U.S. preparations and threats to initiate nuclear war during international crises and war\, – most recently in the Iraq Wars – Russian leaders have rattled their nuclear sabers in their war against Ukraine\, and the US recently helped Ukraine attack Russian air bases where nuclear weapons were stored. Earlier this year\, India\, and Pakistan\, each a nuclear power\, brought back to the nuclear abyss in their Kashmir related war.  And two nuclear weapon states\, Israel and the U.S.\, broke another taboo when they attacked the non-weaponized nuclear enrichment facilities of Iran\, a non-nuclear weapon state\, in June of this year. \nThe greatest danger of nuclear war arises from the U.S.-China military confrontation\, especially over Taiwan and in the South China Sea where an accident\, incident or miscalculation could easily escalate to nuclear war. \nTo continue to hold humanity at risk\, the United States is spending approximately $30 billion a year to upgrade its nuclear arsenal and nuclear weapons delivery systems. At a time of massive cutbacks in health\, housing\, education\, foreign aid\, and other essential social services\, this is money that should be used to support people’s lives\, not to threaten human extinctions. \nContrary to the propaganda of the time\, we now know that most senior U.S. military leaders advised that Japan’s surrender could be achieved on terms acceptable to the United States without the A-bombings. And we now know that the A-bombs did not end the war. Japanese leaders opted to surrender on August 8 on learning that the Soviet Union had entered the war. Tragically\, the myth generated by President Truman’s politically motivated lie that the A-bombings saved U.S. lives has served as a legitimating rationale. To preserve that myth\, the history\, quotations\, and images related to the first A-bombings in the Smithsonian Institution’s 50th anniversary Hiroshima-Nagasaki memorial exhibition were excised and only the Enola Gay\, the bomber that dropped the Hiroshima A-bomb\, was displayed. \nThe Boston Hiroshima-Nagasaki coalition has prepared this major event for Dewey Square\, downtown Boston. The event will feature videos and live speeches from Hibakusha (nuclear weapons witness/survivors)\, scientists and leading nuclear disarmament movement leaders from around the world\, film and photographic showings and displays\, and in the Japanese tradition memorial lantern floats. Beyond the educational work that will be central to the commemorative events\, organizers will be urging people across the Commonwealth and beyond to support the Back from the Brink Campaign\, initiated by Physicians for Social Responsibility\, and H.Res. 317\, related legislation initiated by Rep. McGovern and supported by several Massachusetts Representatives\, as well as the  Responsible Investment bill (S.767/H.1264) which would divest Massachusetts pension funds from WMD producers and those who finance them. \nInitiators of the Boston-Hiroshima Nagasaki Coalition include the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, the American Friends Service Committee\, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility\, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows\, and Back from the Brink. \nOrganizations and individuals\, join us!   Write to owen@masspeaceaction.org for information and /or to join our organizing committee. \nHuman beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist! \nNo More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis! No More Hibakusha (nuclear weapons victims/survivors) \nMoney for people not for nuclear annihilation! \nNo money to update nuclear weapons! \nNo War with Iran\, Russia\, China! \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boston-hiroshima-nagasaki-80th-anniversary-commemoration/
LOCATION:Dewey Square\, 572 Atlantic Ave\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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SUMMARY:A Call for Peace
DESCRIPTION:August 6 and 9\, 2025 mark the 80th year since the U.S.’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, Japan\, immediately killing between 129\,000 and 226\,000 people\, with many thousands dying later from radiation exposure. We remember their suffering\, and call on the nuclear weapons states to take weapons off hairpin trigger alert\, and negotiate a rapid phasing out of weapons of mass destruction. Please join the community of Easthampton for their 41st commemoration of this horrible event to honor those who have suffered and declare that nuclear weapons must be abolished.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/a-call-for-peace/
LOCATION:Nashawannuck Pond Boardwalk\, 50 Payson Ave\, Easthampton\, MA\, 01027\, United States
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SUMMARY:80 Years Later\, Remembering and Repenting The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
DESCRIPTION:Via Pat Ferrone\, St. Susanna Pax Christi \n“The first use of an atomic bomb\, “Little Boy\,” was exploded over Hiroshima\, Japan on August\n6\, 1945. Its explosive power immediately annihilated between 70\,000 and 80\,000 human\nbeings\, and maimed uncountable others. By the end of 1945\, 140\,000 were dead. Just 3 days\nlater\, knowing the effects of the first bomb\, “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki\, killing 40\,000\npeople instantly\, with estimates of up to 100\,000 dead within 5 years: innocent men\, women\nand children. Years later\, Albert Einstein was to lament what he believed was his contribution to\nthese horrific events. He wrote\, “If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, I would have torn\nup my formula in 1905.” \nNow\, eighty years later\, with nine nuclear nations possessing enough nuclear weapons to\ncause the deaths of millions and millions of people\, the devastation of our global home\, the\ndestruction of cultures\, and nuclear winter\, we raise our voices to plead for the only sane\noption available to us: that nuclear weapons be banished from this earth\, beginning with our\nvery own efforts in the United States. Currently\, we are pursuing a program to update our\nnuclear arsenal\, at a staggering cost of $1.7 trillion over 30 years. \nOn Wednesday\, August 6\, at 4:30 pm\, a program planned by the St. Susanna Pax Christi\nGroup\, will take place on the Dedham Town Green to remember the world-shattering events of\nAugust 6 and 9\, 1945. Part of the program will be a shared reading of “Original Child Bomb\,”\nwritten in 1962 by Thomas Merton\, Trappist monk. We will lament the past\, and acknowledge\nthe present danger of a nuclear exchange. This year\, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set\nthe “Doomsday Clock” at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest ever to human extinction.\nPlease join us as we commit ourselves to urge our government\, and the world\, to move “Back\nfrom the Brink” of nuclear war.” \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/80-years-later-remembering-and-repenting-the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
LOCATION:Dedham Town Green\, 600 High St\, Dedham\, 02026\, United States
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SUMMARY:Merrimack Valley People for Peace Commemoration Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Via Merrimack Valley for Peace \n“On Wednesday\, August 6th\, the Merrimack Valley People for Peace will hold a vigil in front of the Old Town Hall in Andover Center from 6:30 to 7:30 PM.  The vigil commemorates the 80th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in war and the destruction of Hiroshima\, Japan at the close of World War II.  The United States bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only deployments of atomic weapons in history.  It is estimated that more than 90\,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and more than 60\,000 people were killed in Nagasaki.  Testing and manufacture of nuclear weapons has continued to damage the environment since. Atomic weapons now are much stronger and numerous\, so a continuing danger to all life on earth.  More countries now have nuclear weapons and others are working to develop them. The vigil is free and open to the public.  Participants are encouraged to bring signs.” \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/merrimack-valley-people-for-peace-commemoration-vigil/
LOCATION:Andover Town Hall\, 20 Main Street\, Andover\, MA\, 01810\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250807T183000
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SUMMARY:Fallout Flicks Presents: White Light Black Rain
DESCRIPTION:Join us in viewing White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, directed by Steven Okazaki! We will follow the viewing with a discussion\, to share our reactions and ways to address the threat that nuclear weapons pose. \n \nAs the US and other countries build up their nuclear arsenals amidst global areas of conflict\, the unthinkable threat of nuclear war has become very real—and very frightening.  Through the powerful recollections of the survivors of the atomic bombs\, which leveled two Japanese cities in 1945\, the film ‘White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’ presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of using nuclear weapons in war.  
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/fallout-flicks-presents-white-light-black-rain/
LOCATION:St James Episcopal Church\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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SUMMARY:Strength Through Peace: Learning From Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, 80 Years Later
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ikeda Center on Friday\, August 8\, for a special Dialogue Nights commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dialogue will explore what we can learn from Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, what strength and peace really mean\, and what each of us can do to transform a culture of war to a culture of peace. There will be guest speakers and the event is open to college students and adults in their 20s and 30s. Please RSVP using the link to the event website.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/strength-through-peace-learning-from-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-80-years-later/
LOCATION:The Ikeda Center for Peace\, Learning and Dialogue\, 396 Harvard Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Commemorative Walk & Meditation for Hiroshima/Nagasaki Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Observe the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a silent and commemorative walk and meditation by the water. The walk will begin at 9:30 am at the Temple and end at the beach at Cook’s Pond. A meditation will begin afterwards on the beach\, and both the walk and meditation will be held in silence. This is a gesture in remembrance of all who suffered and died in the bombings\, and as a contemplative act of bearing witness to the continuing danger of nuclear weapons in our world today. \nFor those who are unable to walk\, there will be coordinated ride-sharing from the Temple to the pond so that all may participate.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/commemorative-walk-meditation-for-hiroshima-nagasaki-anniversary/
LOCATION:Boundless Way Zen Temple\, 1030 Pleasant Street\, Worcester\, 01602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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SUMMARY:Gifting Peace
DESCRIPTION:Join the Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre for a Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Memorial\, featuring: \n\nPerformances\nPeace Art Exhibition\nPeace Walk\nRaffles\n\nSaturday\, August 9\, 2 p.m. at the Korean Church of Boston \nHarvard St.\, Brookline\, MA 02445. Free admission. \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/gifting-peace/
LOCATION:Korean Church of Boston\, 32 Harvard St\, Brookline\, MA\, 02445\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250809T210000
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SUMMARY:Back from the Brink: Remembering the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 80 Years Ago
DESCRIPTION:Via Watertown Citizens for Peace\, Justice and Environment: \nOn Saturday\, August 9\, Watertown Citizens will hold our Annual Remembrance of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is the 80th anniversary of the bombing and in recognition of the Peace and Common Security’s effort to place a Nuclear Disarmament Resolution in front of the Watertown City Council\, the theme of this year’s event is “Back from the Brink.” \nWe will gather in Watertown Square for a Silent Vigil and Brief Program at 7:00 PM. At 8:00 PM we will move to the MDCR Dock for music and personal reflections follow by the launching of the candle boats. \nPlease mark your calendars and spread the word!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/back-from-the-brink-remembering-the-bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-80-years-ago/
LOCATION:Watertown Square\, Main Street at Spring St\, Watertown\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T130000
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SUMMARY:The Rising Generation's Peace & Justice Priorities
DESCRIPTION:The Rising Generation’s Peace & Justice Priorities: With Leading U.S. & European Organizers & Advocates \nZohran Mamdani’s victory speech brought to mind the wisdom and oratory of an earlier inspiring justice and peace leader\, Martin Luther King. But he is not the only dreamer and organizer under 35 doing what he or she can do to make our country and world better. \nJoin rising generation organizers and peace advocates from US\, Germany\, and Serbia talk to learn what they see as the greatest challenges they and we face and their organizing and advocacy responses. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, November 18th. The webinar will begin at 1 p.m. EST to accommodate the time differences. \nSpeakers: \nMina Damnjanovic\, feminist peace activist from Belgrade Serbia. She was active in Women in Black\, Belgrade on Resolution 1325: Women\, peace and Security. She finished MA in Gender Studies\, University of Belgrade. \nLinus Lanfermann-Baumann is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at Graz University\, Austria. His research focuses on peace activism in the 1980s within the transatlantic triangle of West Germany\, Central America\, and the United States. \nOwen Madaus is a Master’s student in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence with experience in peacebuilding\, advocacy\, and community-based development. Owen led organizing for Boston’s Hiroshima/Nagasaki 80th anniversary commemoration and served with Massachusetts Peace Action and is a CPDCS Board member. \nNick Rabb is a postdoctoral researcher at California State University\, Los Angeles. He is a thinker and organizer motivated to help people think critically about politics and social life\, and strategies for a just\, cooperative\, and life-giving society. Nick is a CPDCS Board member and participated in Gensuikyo’s World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Japan. \nRegister below
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-rising-generations-peace-justice-priorities/
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SUMMARY:Trump's Foreign Policy Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:We will evaluate the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy\, which is a break from the post-1945 bipartisan foreign policy consensus and a formal codification of Trumpism’s imperialist\, white nationalist\, transactionalist agenda. \nJoseph Gerson is president of the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security\, vice-president of the International Peace Bureau\, and a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. He formerly headed the Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee.   He is author of Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World  (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War\, Nuclear Extortion\, and Moral Imagination (1995). \nKhury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He researches U.S. empire\, borders\, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific\, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts\, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement\, which was signed by over 6\,000 Black activists\, artists\, and scholars. \nSponsored by MAPA Education Fund\, the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security\, and the IPS New Internationalism Project. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-foreign-policy-doctrine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Strategy and Ideas
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SUMMARY:Ukraine War: Its End-Game Could End Up in Nuclear War
DESCRIPTION:Our guest speaker is Prof. Peter Kuznick of American University\, founder of the Nuclear Studies Institute and longtime advocate for nuclear disarmament. He will discuss how the Ukraine War is the most likely international flashpoint that could lead to WWIII between the US/NATO and Russia\, which would probably mean a catastrophic nuclear war. \nNow in its fifth year\, Prof. Kuznick will discuss the growing possibility of a Ukrainian military defeat later this year after Russia mounts an anticipated major offensive this spring or summer. Russian forces not only could push Ukrainian troops entirely out of the eastern region of the Donbas\, but also continue advancing west to the Dnieper River\, effectively occupying half of Ukraine’s territory and threatening major cities like Kharkiv and Odessa. \nThe US/NATO might choose to help Ukraine avoid such a defeat by escalating and sending in EU troops; airpower to set up a no-fly-zone; long-range missiles like the Tomahawk that could reach deep into Russia’s heartland; and drone/missile attacks as they have done in the past two years on Russian strategic early-warning radar systems\, airbases with nuclear-capable bombers\, and even to assassinate Putin in one of his residences near Moscow. These are red lines that Russia has said could lead to the use of nuclear weapons. \nProf. Kuznick will also discuss the very dangerous mistake made by both Biden and Trump to let the START nuclear arms limitation treaty to expire on Feb. 5. To avoid a hugely expensive and even more destabilizing nuclear arms race\, Trump should accept Putin’s offer of a 1-year extension of START while negotiating a new and even more effective treaty. Trump should also save billions of U.S. tax dollars by stopping development of the Golden Dome missile defense program. \nHe will also discuss the greatly exaggerated threat of Russia attacking European countries after it conquers Ukraine. This fear of Russia is driving EU governments to increase military spending and prepare for a major war with Russia by 2030\, while slashing their budgets for human service and environmental priorities. \nPeter Kuznick is Professor of History and founder and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. A longtime advocate for nuclear disarmament\, he has written extensively about science and politics\, nuclear history\, and Cold War culture. He is the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (2019); the co-author of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Akira Kimura; and Rethinking Cold War Culture (2010) with James Gilbert. He and Oliver Stone co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States. You can follow Professor Kuznick on his substack: https://substack.com/@peterkuznick. \nRegister to attend: \n \nSponsored by Ukraine: A Time for Peace Campaign\, cosponsored by MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament Working Group.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukraine-war-its-end-game-could-end-up-in-nuclear-war/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament,Ukraine/Russia
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SUMMARY:Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM – Silent Vigil in Watertown Square \n7:30 PM – Music/Testimonials at Charles River MDCR Dock \nSuzy Giroux\, Singer\, Songwriter\, and Activist \nSue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin\, Flutist\, WCPJE President \nRay Matsumiya\, Executive Director\, Oleander Initiative  and Grandson of a Hiroshima bombing victim \nTod Gross and Jeanne Trubek\, WCPJE Nuclear Disarmament Committee \nAll participants are encouraged to share reflections \n8:30 PM – Floating of the Candle Boats \nNEVER AGAIN – NO MORE HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI!  \nNO MORE VICTIMS – ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS! \n  \n“Why do we stand in silence and float candle boats”? To remember – \n*The more than 210\,000 killed\, and the many more injured\, by the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945. \n*That the danger of nuclear war is ever present and growing daily\, and that  without a powerful grassroots movement dedicated to abolition of nuclear weapons\,  the unthinkable – another Hiroshima or Nagasaki – is possible. \nSponsored by Watertown Citizens for Peace\, Justice and the Environment (WCPJE) \nWe appreciate the support of NE American Friends Service Committee and Massachusetts Peace Action. \nVisit www.watertowncitizens.org and www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE \nFor a listing of other activities remembering the events of August 6 and 9\, visit www.masspeaceaction.org \nAlternate Location in the Event of Rain: First Parish Watertown\, 35 Church Street\, Watertown
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
LOCATION:Watertown Square\, Main Street at Spring St\, Watertown\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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