BACKGROUND INFO.

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At 1:45 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay , took off from Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands. It carried the world's second atomic bomb, the first having been detonated three weeks earlier at a US test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico..cont.

Reason and Circumstances of the Hiroshima Bomb
Hiroshima raises many profound questions about how the Twentieth Century will be remembered: Who defines world culture? How do we treat our cultural heritage? Who remembers what, and for which purpose?.. cont

US Nuclear Hypocrisy: Bad for the US, Bad for the World By David Krieger
Every five years the parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meet in a review conference to further the non-proliferation and disarmament goals of the treaty. This year the conference ended in a spectacular failure with no final document and no agreement on moving forward. For the first ten days of the conference, the US resisted agreement on an agenda that made any reference to past commitments..cont

Eyewitness account of the bombing:
Taniguchi Sumiteru, now in his mid-70s, is a hibakusha. He is also a leader of a survivors' organisation in Nagasaki. During a session this month at the United Nations sponsored by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers' Organisations, he spoke of his own experience and his desire for peace. His testimony is reprinted here..cont