Y12 NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPLEX Enriched uranium
for Little Boy bomb that destroyed Japanese city 65 years ago
Names and Remembrance Ceremony memorializes victims, recalls destruction
by US, and looks to a future free of nuclear weapons
The ceremony beings before dawn with the reading of names of those who
died in Hiroshima; as each name is read, a bell is tolled and a peace
crane is tied to the barbed wire fence surrounding the weapons plant.
Eyewitness descriptions from survivors and poetry from contemporaneous
witnesses are also read during the three hour ceremony which pauses at
8:15am to mark the time the bomb exploded over Hiroshima.
“This solemn ceremony recalls the first use of atomic weapons of mass
destruction on a civilian population,” said Ralph Hutchison, coordinator
of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. “It is important to
remember our history. For decades, the people of the United States were
shielded from the truth of the destruction of Hiroshima by our
government. If we are to learn from the past, and forge a better future,
we have to confront the truth, for better or worse.”
The Names and Remembrance ceremony also expresses the hopes of those who
will gather for a future free of nuclear weapons. “People will come from
Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, Japan and across East
Tennessee, from all walks of life, to bear witness to the longing of all
our hearts for a peace that is not overshadowed by the threat of nuclear
weapons,” Hutchison said. “It is important that we stand in Oak Ridge,
whether thermonuclear weapons are still being produced, to declare
ourselves for nuclear disarmament.
Everyone is invited to attend and participate
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This years event will start in
Cincinnati Ohio on July 31st
and finish in
Oak Ridge Tennessee at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex
August 6th
In time for the Names & Remembrance Ceremony
July 31st - Crittenden Kentucky
August 1st - Lexington Kentucky
August 2nd - Mt Vernon Kentucky
August 3rd - Williamsburg Kentucky
August 4th - Lake City Tennessee
August 5th - Knoxville Tennessee
August 6th - Oak Ridge TN
How can you help us?
Organize a overnight
Organize a pot luck dinner
Organize an event in any
of these locations
where we can meet with the community