7:00 pm at Omni.
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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 diplomatic implications of possessing such a device were unmistakable as the United States and Soviet Union entered the iciest period of the Cold War. While much has been written about the strategic role of these missiles, little has been said about the risks they posed to the Americans who had to live with them in their backyards.”
This presentation shifts the focus to the risks posed to Arkansans by these eighteen Titan II missile silos kept on alert status in north central Arkansas from 1963 to 1987.
Dr. Art Hobson will be hosting a discussion session after the event for people to bring up questions and comments. There’s so much about this fraught topic that needs to be discussed.
Put this moving event on your calendar, and come ready to learn.