Memorial: Goodbye to the Bomb!

THIS YEAR MARKS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY of the U.S. bombing in Japan of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. Every year, Peace Action of Michigan coordinates a remembrance of these tragedies. This year about 25 people demonstrated at the corner of 11 Mile/Woodward in Royal Oak to remember the anniversaries, in support of “Wave Good-Bye to Nuclear Weapons,” as well as supporting the nuclear disarmament deal with Iran.

A program followed inside, attended by well over a 100 people, at St. John Episcopal Church. Speaking on the history of the nuclear disarmament movement was historian Fran Shor, accompanied by a discussion of the Iran Nuclear Accord by physicist Prasad Venugopal and Citizens for Peace leader Colleen Mills who stressed calling on our US Senators (Debbie Stabenow 313.961.4330 and Gary Peters 313.226.6020) to support and vote YES on the Iran Nuclear Deal.

In addition 20 peace advocates traveled afterwards from Michigan to Oak Ridge, TN. There they protested at the Y- 12 Plant that produced the highly enriched uranium that fueled the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Their presence was also a protest to the U.S. spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design a new multi-billion dollar plant – the Uranium Processing Facility – to continue producing components for decades to come.