| August 6, 2007 will mark 62 years since
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| | power in 1939 and who subsequently became
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| the dropping of an atomic bomb on the
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| | the project's chief physicist, developed
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| Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. Many
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| | such misgivings as the research
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| people including the pilot of the Enola
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| | progressed that he drafted a formal
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| Gay, Paul Tibbets, believed that his
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| | petition to the U.S. president signed by
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| mission would bring an end to the war
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| | 69 fellow scientists warning of the
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| with Japan. The 20-year-old colonel had
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| | bomb's potential consequences. On July
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| named the B-29 Superfortress after his
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| | 17, 1945 they requested that the petition
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| mother. Little did he know that the
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| | be delivered to Truman, though whether
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| victims would number over 230,000. The
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| | the president received it before August 6
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| dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
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| | is also debated. "I remind you that if
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| and on Nagasaki three days later marked
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| | Hiroshima is ever repeated, it will mark
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| the beginning of the Nuclear Age, a new
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| | the end of the human race. I pray that
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| era insofar as moral values in society
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| | the future generation will look deeply
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| are concerned. The official Web site
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| | into the meaning of Hiroshima and strive
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| of the annual Peace Memorial Ceremony for
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| | to build a world free of nuclear
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| Hiroshima sets aside August 6 "to console
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| | weapons," said Yoshitaka Kawamoto, one of
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| the souls of those who were lost due to
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| | the few survivors, in another article In
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| the atomic bombing as well as pray for
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| | His Own Words, written by Vision.org
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| the realization of everlasting world
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| | publisher David Hulme. Sixty years after
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| peace." The Peace Declaration, which is
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| | the explosion over Hiroshima, one
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| delivered by the Mayor of Hiroshima
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| | thoughtful man reminded us that "we have
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| during the ceremony, is sent to every
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| | to learn to think in a new way." In a May
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| country in the world thus conveying
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| | 17, 2005 New York Times op-ed piece,
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| Hiroshima's wish for the abolition of
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| | 97-year-old Nobel prize winner Joseph
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| nuclear weapons and the realization of
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| | Rotblat, the only scientist to have
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| eternal world peace. At exactly 8:15
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| | resigned from the Manhattan Project on
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| a.m., the time the atomic bomb was
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| | moral grounds, referred to the
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| dropped, the Peace Bell is rung, sirens
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| | Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955.
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| sound all over the city and for one
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| | Rotblat and 10 other scientists signed
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| minute people at the ceremony grounds, in
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| | that manifesto against nuclear war, which
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| households and in workplaces pay silent
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| | was Albert Einstein's last public
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| tribute to the victims of the atomic
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| | undertaking just before his death, to
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| bombing and pray for the realization of
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| | restore moral values in society.
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| everlasting world peace. In a compelling
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| | Einstein, like Rotblat, chose repeatedly
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| Vision.org article focusing on the moral
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| | to warn against the human folly of
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| ethics of such social issues as Hiroshima
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| | nuclear development for aggressive
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| the writer, Donald R. Hornsby, describes
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| | purposes. The emperor of Japan had led
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| both sides of this historical event. For
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| | his nation into a costly war that
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| those in Hiroshima who survived the "rain
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| | resulted in the deaths of thousands and
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| of ruin," it was the closest thing to a
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| | the complete destruction of two cities.
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| living nightmare that they could have
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| | He uttered one wish for his country: "Let
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| imagined. In addition to this human
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| | the entire nation continue as one family
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| nightmare, the bomb damaged or destroyed
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| | from generation to generation." Since
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| nearly 70,000 of Hiroshima's 76,000
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| | 1947, Japan has set aside August 6 as a
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| buildings. In 1939 military intelligence
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| | current social event, a time to focus on
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| uncovered the fact that Nazi Germany was
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| | the vision of obtaining peace for all
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| nearing completion of a weapon using
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| | generations. In a prophecy delivered just
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| nuclear fission. By 1941 the United
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| | before His death, Jesus of Nazareth spoke
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| States had entered an unprecedented race
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| | of a time of great trouble such as the
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| to develop a nuclear weapon. This effort
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| | world has never seen, and said that
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| was known as the Manhattan Project. When
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| | "unless those days were shortened, no
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| U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt died in
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| | flesh would be saved" (Matthew 24:22).
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| April 1945, American, British and
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| | Taken together with other prophetic
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| Canadian scientists and specialists were
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| | statements that seem to describe the
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| determined, as were the nations of the
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| | effects of future horrendous weapons (see
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| Allied Forces, to find a solution towards
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| | Revelation 9), what happened to two
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| a rapid end to the war. Harry Truman made
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| | cities in Japan will be only the
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| the final decision to deploy the bomb
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| | beginning of sorrows. Today as the world
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| over Japan: a course of action that has
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| | wrestles with the legacy of Hiroshima,
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| been the subject of moral debate
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| | there are fears that rogue nations may
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| throughout the 62 years since. Leo
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| | unleash the nuclear genie from the bottle
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| Szilard, one of the scientists who
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| | one more time.
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| encouraged the development of atomic
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