Hiroshima 2025 - a Time for Remembrance and Reconciliation

Hiroshima and the continuing Illawarra peace movement

This year marks 80 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing between 150,000 and 246,000 people and devastating two cities. Alexander Brown documents the history of the strong regional anti-war movement in the Illawarra.

Hiroshima 2025 - a time for remembrance and reconciliation

As Francis Chiappa stated in his July 20 guest column, "No More Hiroshimas. No More Nagasakis,“ let us gather hearts and minds this Aug. 6, when the hour comes for the annual global grieving of the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us also grieve our loss of innocence. We who had the power to unleash atomic energy against humanity played God. We vaporized, burned, and forever deformed God’s creation. Essentially, we all lo…

Santa Cruz: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembrance Day : Indybay

Unity Room (formerly called the Community Room), Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz

Asking Wisconsin to Give the Militarism a Break for One Day 80 Years After Bombing of Hiroshima - World BEYOND War

By Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin and Madison for a World BEYOND War, July 23, 2025 Dear Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin (PSR WI) and World Beyond War Madison are writing to respectfully request that the Wisconsin National Guard refrain from conducting any military flyovers over the city of Madison on August 6, 2025. This date marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombin…

Eighty years after Hiroshima, is the world any safer from nuclear war?

AS THE 80th anniversary of the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolls around next month, it is worth asking how safe is the world from another nuclear war. The aftermath of the US strike on Iran’s putative nuclear weapons facilities in June seems to have engendered a belief that the world has somehow stepped back from the brink.