Hiroshima's Chugoku-Shikoku Public Works Office building aka "The Atomic Bomb Dome."
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The Past, Present and Future of Nuclear Weapons
August 3, 2005
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Although the Cold War ended more than a decade ago, nuclear weapons, and the threat of nuclear war, haven't gone away. There are still about two thousand warheads on hair-trigger alert just in the United States. At least two new countries have joined the nuclear family since the 1990s, and the Bush administration continues to pursue new types of nuclear weapons while lowering the threshold for using them.
On this edition, we look at the past, present and possible future of nuclear weapons, from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the War on Terror. We'll also hear an update on international efforts toward nuclear disarmament.
Featuring:
Keiko Ogura, survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing; Sakue Shimohira and Fumiko Matsuda, survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing; Yoshio Suzuki, Japanese WWII veteran; Lincoln Grafhls, U.S. Navy veteran; Mark Gwozdecky, chief spokesperson, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Rastam Mohamed Isa, Malaysia's ambassador to the United Nations; Jackie Sanders, Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament and Special Representative of the President for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; Lawrence Scheinman, professor, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Susi Snyder, secretary general, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Marty Hart-Landsberg, professor of economics, Lewis and Clark College; Chong Ki Pung, professor, Kim Hyung Jik Teacher's University; Christine Ahn, director, Peace and International Solidarity Program of the Women of Color Resource Center; Sun Hyung Lee, Korean-American peace activist.
This week's host: Justin Beck. Contributing producers: Reese Erlich, Leigh Ann Caldwell, and Miae Kim.
For more information:
Peacetalks
215-297-8509; peacevoice@enter.net
www.peacetalksonline.org
International Atomic Energy Agency (U.N. office)
1 United Nations Plaza
Room DC-1-1155
New York, NY 10017 USA
212-963-6010
iaeany@un.org
www.iaea.org
Monterey Institute of International Studies
460 Pierce Street
Monterey, CA 93940
831-647-4100
www.miis.edu
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1213 Race Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-563-7110
www.wilpf.org
Lewis and Clark College
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219-7899
www.lclark.edu
Women of Color Resource Center
1611 Telegraph Ave. #303
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-2700; info@coloredgirls.org
www.coloredgirls.org