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Peace activists will remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings, call for ban on nuclear weapons

Posted at 11:13 am August 4, 2017
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

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Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, is pictured above during a rally at Alvin K. Bissell Park on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. (File photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

Peace activists will have events in Oak Ridge and Knoxville starting Saturday and ending Wednesday that will recall the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II, and the activists will call for a ban on nuclear weapons.

The events have been organized by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. OREPA has events each August remembering the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of World War II. The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge enriched uranium for the first atomic bomb used in wartime. Code-named “Little Boy,” the bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, shortly before the end of the war.

OREPA has scheduled a Saturday event called “And We Are Saying Peace.” It will start at 12:30 p.m. with a concert and theater presentation at Alvin K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge. Those who attend will call on the United States to join the countries that passed a legal treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons at the United Nations on July 7, a press release said.

The Saturday event will also mark the conclusion of a peace pilgrimage from Asheville, North Carolina, to Oak Ridge, led by the Buddhist order Nipponzan Myohoji, the press release said. The walk left Asheville last Sunday and is expected to arrive at Bissell Park on Saturday. The final leg will leave Solway at 9 a.m. Saturday. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: atomic bomb, ban on nuclear weapons, Hiroshima, Little Boy, Nagasaki, Names and Remembrance Ceremony, Nipponzan Myohoji, nuclear weapons, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, OREPA, peace activists, peace lantern ceremony, peace pilgrimage, Ralph Hutchison, treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, UPF, uranium processing facility, W76 warheads, World War II, Y-12 National Security Complex

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