Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors back Obama's Nuclear-free commitment


 New York, May 5 Kyodo.

The Mayors of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki supported U.S. President Barack Obama's recent commitment to eliminate nuclear weapons in their respective speeches Tuesday to a session of the preparatory committee of the 2919 Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty Review conference.In speech at U.N. headquarters, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akihba coined a new term by calling the growing number of nuclear abolitionist around the world as the "Obamajority". 

http://theblackship.com/news/categories/world/3886-hiroshima-nagasaki-mayors-back-obamas-nuclear-free-commitment.html



Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Q&A: "Springtime of Hope" Seen for Nuke Disarmament



Thalif Deen interviews JAYANTHA DHANAPALA, former under-secretary-general for disarmament affairs





Jayantha Dhanapala


Monday, May 4, 2009

Intervew to Qeen Noor of Jordan



The End Of Nuclear Weapons
Queen Noor of Jordan, born and educated in the U.S., is one of the 100 political and civic leaders behind Global Zero, a new initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons. We asked what can be done. 


HIroshima Peace Decraration '08


The peace deciaration issued at the Peace Memorial Ceremony on 
August 6, 2008 is carrid.

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/declaration/English/index.html


Peace Declaration by city mayor Akiba of Hiroshima city.
"Let us pledge here and now to take all actions required to bequeath to future generations a nuclear-weapon-free world."


Hirosima Peace Site






Nagasaki Peace Declaration 2008


At 11.02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the sky above Nagasaki was filled by a white flash, and all the clocks stopped. A gigantic mushroom-shaped cloud soared up towards the blue sky. What’s going on? What’s happened to everyone? Even now the debris of the magnificent collapsed cathedral, torn clothes and melted bottles silently tell a story. We will continue to relay a message of peace from Nagasaki, a message passed on by the survivors, who overcome great difficulties. In the hope that the people of the world can join hands and face a future free of nuclear weapons.