Hiroshima Delegation visits Kansas City

Henry Stoever, long-time Kansas City peace activist, lawyer, member of the Catholic Worker Movement, has arranged for a visit of four representatives from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to Kansas City. Let us join them on September 5, 7 PM at the Community of Christ Temple for a Reception and Panel Discussion.

See Henry's comments below this poster:

HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI POSTER EXHIBITION: WHY?

I was moved and touched when I went through the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. To see depicted a historical event of horrific proportions -- a landmark for "man's inhumanity to man" made me re-affirm the call, "Never Again."

The purpose of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Poster Exhibition is to remember what occurred August 6-9, 1945, and to evoke the call, "Never Again." The posters show these two Japanese cities as they were before the atomic bombings, the immense devastation after the atomic bombings, the long-term aftereffects, how the bombs worked, and how the rebuilt cities appear today.

For me, the exhibition is a journey of moral and spiritual dimensions. May we reject now and in the future the ways of inhumanity and see that we are all of one human family. The only way for us to survive is to see that our destinies are interlinked and to abolish such weapons.

Retired U.S. Navy Vice-Admiral Jack Shanahan has stated that today's nuclear weapons are 15 times more powerful than each of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that a mere 5 nuclear bombs would devastate Russia. The USA and Russia each have approx. 10,000 nuclear weapons today. The 1963 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty called for a build-down of nuclear weapons so that said weapons would be eliminated. We have far to go. This Hiroshima-Nagasaki Poster Exhibition is a reminder of our duties to fulfill that Treaty.

Henry M. Stoever

Contact: Henry Stoever with PeaceWorks KC, (913) 375-0045 or henrystoever@sbcglobal.net

See http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/776224.html

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