HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI
COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206., Baltimore, MD
21212 Ph: 410-323-1607 Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] Comcast dot net
PRESS
RELEASE-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5,2020
CONTACT: Max Obuszewski 410-323-1607 or 443-761-5899 or mobuszewski2001
at comcast.net
Janice Sevre-Duszynska 859-684-4247
BALTIMORE HOLDS 36th ANNUAL HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION.
WHO: For the 36th year, the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee
will remember the atomic bombings of Japan on August 6 & 9, 1945, which
killed hundreds of thousands of people. Other organizations involved in the commemorations are
the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Baltimore Peace Action, Chesapeake Physicians
for Social Responsibility, Homewood Friends Meeting, Maryland Peace Action and
Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland.
WHAT/WHEN/WHERE: On Thursday, August 6 from 1:15 to 1:30 PM, as part of the 75
Years of shared Nuclear Legacy, four advocates will speak out against Johns
Hopkins University’s weapons research. From 1:30 to 1:45 PM, listen to
Councilperson Bill Henry and others talk about the Back from the Brink
campaign. Baltimore was the first major city to pass a resolution
supporting this campaign. To watch these segments and many others on both
August 6 and 9, go to https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/events?emci=cc643ffc-2dd0-ea11-9b05-00155d03bda0&emdi=0198b95e-3bd0-ea11-9b05-00155d03bda0&ceid=130901.
Also
on August 6 from 5 to 6:30 PM with signs, banners, ribbons and artwork,
participants will commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the four
corners at 33rd and North Charles Streets in Baltimore. This area was
selected because of its proximity to Johns Hopkins University, a major nuclear
weapons contractor. In fiscal year 2019, JHU received more than one billion
dollars in weapons contracts. JHU’s Applied
Physics Laboratory is the research center which engages in most of the
university’s work on weapons research. The APL renewed a seven-year contract in
2017 worth $93 million to continue a strategic partnership with the Air Force
Nuclear Weapons Center. The protesters will show support for the Back from the Brink
resolution, five steps towards the abolition of nuclear weapons, and will call
for ratification of the UN Ban Treaty. People will wear masks and stay
six feet from others.
WHY: These are very
dangerous times. The United States is planning to spend over a trillion dollars
to maintain and enhance its nuclear weapons arsenal for decades to come. The
Trump administration is abandoning hard-won agreements aiming to reduce chances
of nuclear war. Seventy-five years later, the Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds
to midnight. We must make sure the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
never repeated.
The U.S. and Russian
governments, which possess approximately 93 percent of the world’s
nearly 14,000 nuclear warheads, have abandoned negotiations. The
Trump administration is calling for more nuclear testing, and wants to develop
battlefield, lower-yield nuclear weapons. It is terrifying to think that
a president can launch a nuclear strike without Congressional approval.
Can we trust President Trump who may lose the election in November not to
use nuclear weapons?
In
2017, 122 countries voted for a United Nations Treaty to Ban Nuclear
Weapons. It takes fifty countries to ratify this Treaty, and the count is
presently at 40. Baltimore’s anti-nuclear community continues to speak
out, to demonstrate and to lobby federal legislators that these awful and
immoral weapons must be banned. We want to build a safer world for the children to inherit. Let
us show respect for Mother Earth by remembering what the Hibakusha, atomic bomb
survivors, say -- Never Again. As long as nuclear weapons exist, they may
be used. We must reduce the risk of nuclear war which will ultimately
require the abolition of nuclear weapons. The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration
Committee will continue its work to rid the planet of nuclear weapons.
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