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Boulder Hiroshima Remembrance–Saturday August 6

July 22, 2022 By Bob Kinsey

Join us on Saturday, August 6th at 11am for a demonstration to commemorate the 77 year anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Stand with us on the corner of Broadway and Canyon with signs and banners calling for an end to nuclear weapons, and calling on the Boulder City Council to endorse the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

 

This August 6th and 9th mark the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Across the world, and in our own nation and state, communities continue to bear the scars of nuclear weapons use and development. Here in Colorado, the landscape still bears the memory of Rocky Flats, which produced 70,000 plutonium pits for nuclear weapons. There have been too many times, despite reassurance from our leaders that these weapons are only here to protect and keep order, that nuclear armed states have been prepared to use these weapons, and war has been averted only at the last minute. The current and ongoing crisis over Ukraine shows that the looming threat of nuclear war is still a very real, and very terrifying possibility.

 

However, there is still cause for hope. In January of last year, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force at the United Nations, establishing in international law a ban on nuclear weapons. Although the Treaty is now officially written into international law, the Treaty does not legally apply to the United States, because we have not signed or ratified it. But that makes it all the more important for governments within the US to endorse this treaty, to create the pressure necessary to usher in a new paradigm free of the threat of nuclear annihilation. Here in the United States, over 60 state and local governments, including Denver, have passed resolutions in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Join us as we call on Boulder to pass a declaration in support of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty!

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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