(This originally ran in the August 4, 2019 Print Edition of the Davis Enterprise) Hiroshima and Nagasaki — together, these two cities bring to mind the damage done to them by the United States’ use of atomic bombs on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, over 70 years ago. The bombs devastated both cities, leaving behind the immediate […]
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Hiroshima Day Remembrance – The Day After Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hiroshima Day Remembrance: Showing THE DAY AFTER, a film about a fictional nuclear attack on the US As a remembrance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the first and only use of nuclear weapons in wartime, and in memory of those victims of unrestrained nuclear testing in many parts of the globe, […]
Chain Reaction: A New Moment – Ploughshares Fund 2019
Members of DAVIS CAN participated in the Ploughshares Fund’s annual event entitled “Chain Reaction: A New Moment” on June 10, 2019 in San Francisco. The event was an evening of conversation and inspiring presentations on reshaping the national debate on nuclear strategy. Ploughshares has been working since 1982 to support efforts to reduce and eliminate […]
BAN THE BOMB: A Plan Forward
Nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the major combatants were at the center of the Cold War and are moving to the center of the new world political/military dynamic. These weapons are uniquely evil because their enormous indiscriminate destructive force, and long-lived environmental and human damage, obliterates the distinction between soldier and civilian, innocent bystander […]
