President Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima memorial. Obama will visit on May 27th, amid some criticism. Some are concerned that the president’s visit will be viewed as an American apology for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II. However, White House spokesman Josh Earnest has assured that President Obama will not apologize for the bombings during his visit.
Some are critiquing the president, who received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons, for contradicting himself with his push for the U.S to use modernized and smaller nuclear weapons.
Sister Megan Rice, who once broke into the Y-12 NASA Security Complex to bring attention to the lack of security and the need to put an end to all nuclear weapons, will be on our show on Thursday to discuss the dangers of the country’s modernization and miniaturization of nuclear weapons. We will also have Marie Dennis, co-president at Pax Christi International, an international Catholic peace organization and Sally Denton, author of The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, to give their insights on the Hiroshima visit.
From a Woman’s POV airs on Thursday, May 26th at 10 am.
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” … his push for the U.S to use modernized and smaller nuclear weapons.”
“use?” Now, others may have a different view of what “use” means, but for this old Boomer, raised when we hid under our wooden desks to defend against nuclear attack, “use” DEFinitely implies “mushroom clouds,” so, when did ANYone (except the presumptive Republican presidential candidate” ACTUALLY “push” to “USE” nuclear weapons, of ANY size and vintage?
There are some safety factors involved in “modernizing” the arsenal, so that is somewhat less problematic than “smaller nuclear weapons” as far as I’m concerned.
I’d like for the global citizenry to realize that there ARE NO “WINNERS” in ANY nuclear exchange.
We’re like the guy whose friend found him packing nitroglycerin into the back of his jacket.
When asked about it, he complained,”That jerk keeps slapping me on the back when he says, “Hi,” and the next time he does it, I’m gonna blow his fool hand off … ”
It’s clear that the “deterrent” value of nukes has failed. They were supposed to diminish “conventional” wars by presenting that awful precipice that “nobody” wanted to tumble from. Well, look around …