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3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2, Usher In a New Strategic Era

China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing, Moscow and Washington will likely be atomic peers.

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HONORARY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS

Robert E. Frye 

Rebecca Johnson

” The following commentary by Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy on the Second Conference of the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons ”

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rebecca-johnson/banning-nuclear-weapons-point-of-no-return

Second International Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

Delegations representing 146 States, the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and civil society organizations, participated in the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons held in Nayarit, Mexico, on 13 and 14 February 2014, to discuss global and long term consequences of any nuclear detonation, accidental or deliberate, from the perspective and concerns of the 21st century society, including areas such as public health, humanitarian assistance, the economy, development and environmental issues , climate change, food security and risk management, amongst others.

http://www.sre.gob.mx/en/images/stories/cih/ci.pdf

http://www.sre.gob.mx/en/index.php/humanimpact-nayarit-2014

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rebecca-johnson/banning-nuclear-weapons-point-of-no-return

Syracuse native’s documentary explores history, future of nuclear weapons

Not long after Bob Frye graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in 1957, he entered the army where he worked on nuclear weapons. More than half a century later, he’s educating the public on the history and future of humanity’s gravest threat.

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Article related to the footage filmed in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

My Lifetime uses footage from the documentary film The Effects of the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only film shot immediately after the war, while the cities were still deserts of debris, the wounds were fresh, and the thousands suffering from radiation sickness were still alive.  Here’s how historian Abe Mark Nornes describes the 22 minute film that was supressed for decades (original source link):

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President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” Speech

Before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy

Madame President, Members of the General Assembly:

When Secretary General Hammarskjold’s invitation to address this General Assembly reached me in Bermuda, I was just beginning a series of conferences with the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Great Britain and of France. Our subject was some of the problems that beset our world.

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Military Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

My fellow Americans:

Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.

This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.

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The Beginning: The Trinity Blast

July 16, 1945
05:29:45
Mountain War Time

On July 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb exploded. The bomb known as “The Gadget” had been hoisted to the top of a tower the evening

before. The explosion vaporized the tower and the sand beneath the blast turned to glass. Today a crater and obelisk marks the Trinity site in the desert of southern New Mexico. “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Scientific Director of the top secret Manhattan Project thought of this quote from the Bhagavad-Gita as he saw the flash of light, followed by sound and wind, followed by the first telltale signs of a mushroom cloud forming on the early morning horizon. Standing beside Oppenheimer was the Test director Kenneth Bainbridge “Now we are all sons of bitches”. There was a pride of their scientific achievement, but it was also the beginning of the struggle among many there as they reflected on the consequences of the weapon they had created. “The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined” General Thomas Farrell observed at the Trinity site.