Daily Archives: August 5, 2025

Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial coming up August 10

 in Hiroshima Nagasaki

7:00 pm at Omni. Respond of the Facebook event please. More info there! Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration 2025 Both Harmonia and Geoff Oelsner will be performing their warm and healing music. Dr. Michael Anthony, UA Dept of HIstory, will tell the story of the Titan II missile explosion in Damascus, AR and how it relates to nuclear war. Dr. Anthony says: “The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was an engineering marvel. Tested in 1961, the ICBM could deliver a nine-megaton nuclear device (600 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) 5500 miles and accurately strike within a one-square-mile target. The […]

OMNI HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE ANTHOLOGY 2025 #2AUGUST 4, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / Hiroshima Nagasaki

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance.html What’s at Stake:  Just before and during the early 20th century, the Western powers expanded their colonialism into S. E. Asia and the Pacific.  The US took Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.   The French took IndoChina; the Dutch Malaysia.    Japan began a war against eastern Asia.    In 1941 the US and UK blocked imports into Japan critical to empire.   On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan, Italy, and Germany.  In 1945  the US destroyed two Japanese cities […]