Humanity stands at a crossroads. Nearly 75 years since the United States dropped two nuclear weapons on the people of Japan, we continue to worship the false idols of the nuclear age. We do so at all of humanity’s peril. The nuclear priests continue to practice their alchemy, working from the same, outdated bible created by men during the prehistory of the nuclear age. The mythos created out of this espouses the doctrine of deterrence, and is unable (or unwilling) to hear the voices of suffering they have brought on countless human beings. Furthermore, as a result of their separation, […]
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Ground Zero Creates Billboards Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Editor’s Note: The following news release was sent out to media outlets on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Seattle area Billboards inform citizens of Nuclear Weapons stockpiled in their Back Yard on the 75th Remembrance of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Contacts: Leonard Eiger (425) 445-2190, outreach@gzcenter.org Rodney Brunelle (425) 485-7030 Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 On July 13, and continuing for four weeks, four billboards will display the following paid advertisement: Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor… Base with largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S., Remembering the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Accept Responsibility! Included in the advertisement […]
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11 people cited at Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, marking the 74th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
60 people were present on August 5th at a flash mob demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. The demonstration was in the roadway at the Main Gate of the Trident nuclear submarine base during rush hour traffic. To see flash mob performance and related videos, please see https://www.facebook.com/groundzerocenter. At around 6:30 AM on Monday, over thirty flash mob dancers and supporters entered the roadway carrying peace flags and two large banners stating, “We can all live without Trident” and “Abolish Nuclear Weapons.” While traffic into the base was blocked, dancers performed to a recording of War […]
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No war should be called ‘good’
By David Swanson Originally published in the Kitsap Sun, July 27, 2019 The nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago this August 6th and 9th did not save lives. They took lives, possibly 200,000 of them. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that, “… certainly prior to 31 December, 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November, 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” One dissenter who had […]
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Never Again!
GZ Nonviolence E-News August 9, 2018 Dear Friends of a nuclear weapons-free world,Today, August 9th, marks the 73rd anniversary of the day the United States dropped an an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. This was the second bomb used by the US, against a primarily civilian population, before the Japanese government could fully grasp what had happened at Hiroshima just three days before. History books in the US tell us that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war, and few ever question this narrative. Yet the truth is far from the accepted […]
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