We knew the world would not be the same [streaming video]. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (wiki)
Hiroshima marks bomb anniversary with hope for US change
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) - The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (UN) : wiki || IAEA
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
- Anti-nuclear movement in Australia. (wiki)
- New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone (wiki)
- The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, Auckland Harbour (wiki)
- New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 || NZ history online
- Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) : The nuclear chain
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