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Abstract

         Hiroshima/Nagasaki (H/N) passed 79 years of Western globalization and were scaled by the number of countries with deployed, or possibly deployed nuclear weapons in 120 times, o­n military bases of almost 120 countries, including nuclear o­nes that infected them with the H/N genocidal carcinogen. This is an updated - nuclear, but identical to Hitler's genocide of the planetary Auschwitz with its racism: "Jedem das Seine".

         Its globalization is the West and NATO "triumph" in the genocidal philosophy practice of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", which became the "golden billion" bestseller and the publication of which will soon be 100 years old.

         The o­nly intellectual alternative to genocidal philosophy for 100 years is becoming the spheral, "substantially new thinking" of Einstein, o­nly the globalization of which in the peace science and population education will eradicate the H/N genocidal racist globalization that is the GGHA article subject below.

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Nuclear Civilization: From the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Western Globalization to the Peace Science
Alternative Globalization through International Law Bridge

By

Leo Semashko

Publication:

In English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1206

In Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1082

         This article was written for the 79th anniversary of the civilians tragedy in two Japanese cities Hiroshima/Nagasaki (H/N), o­n whom the first nuclear genocidal terror in human history was unmotivatedly unleashed.

Publication: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1206

1. H/N: The Birth of the Nuclear Suicidal Civilization and its Globalization

         “The nuclear age was conceived in the original sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki o­n August 6 and 9, 1945. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki constituted crimes against humanity and war crimes…” [1]. The H/N nuclear terror is the criminal fruit of the USA, the West as a whole, therefore the nuclear civilization born in it is a criminal Western "nuclear age" and a criminal "suicidal civilization" [2; 3]. It forced other civilizations of humanity, for the purpose of self-preservation and security, to respond adequately, with nuclear weapons, to the existential Western threat. Therefore, all the nuclear civilization time since H/N is marked by the satanic sign of its suicidal globalization o­n the path of a continuous and accelerating nuclear weapons race, its unlimited scaling both in the power of genocidal potential and in the number of countries involved in it. It dooms this criminal civilization and all humanity with similar trends to an inevitable nuclear Armageddon/Auschwitz.

         The genocide historical potential of this civilization has reached the extreme level of risk and non-return, exceeding 99%, locked in a symbolic meszer 90 seconds of the humanity remaining life o­n the "Doomsday" clock [4]. It is accompanied by an aggravation of the hellish military, psychological and spiritual confrontation within it o­n the fields of local genocide in Gaza, Ukraine and the like as a prelude and incitement to total nuclear genocide in a new and final world war. This criminal confrontation was heroically and selflessly illustrated by the protest self-immolation of the US soldier, Aaron Bushnell, in Washington, in front of the Israeli embassy o­n February 25, 2024, at 13-00 [5].

         Today, the nuclear civilization is storming the summit of global genocide, the approach to which was first begun by Adolf Hitler. His "laurels" have haunted diligent students from the USA/NATO for almost 80 years. Their training in the genocide of about 40 nations in the years after H/N with conventional weapons led to the deaths of 20 to 30 million civilians [6, 6a]. Today, the US and NATO continue the genocide of civilians in the Gaza Strip, Ukraine and around the world. The frantic nuclear arms race launched by the US/NATO naturally gave rise to accelerated production of these weapons in those countries that were planned to be the next victims after H/N in the plans to “wipe them off the map” [7]. These countries did everything to resist Western nuclear terror and not to become victims of its crime: the USSR, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea. o­ne of the last acts of the criminal race was the suicidal decision of the West to invest 1.2 trillion dollars in the “modernization of nuclear weapons” by 2030, which is “capable of killing up to 90% of humanity” [8].

         The state dehumanization, dehumanization of the highest state leaders of NATO and the West is happening before the eyes of numerous international organizations: the UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, etc., powerless to stop the avalanche of monstrous militaristic genocide, which has inevitably approached by 99%, by 90 seconds, a complete, global genocide. Our general assessment of the "golden billion" criminal Western civilization is presented in our "Anti-NATO Manifesto" with colleagues [9].

         As a result, for almost 80 years, the nuclear civilization, imposed by force and threat of force by the West o­n humanity, has become a turning point in its history. o­n it, humanity will either end its existence, or radically change its strategic vector of the future in the direction of planetary and scientific "perpetual peace" according to Kant [10] in all spheres of society, as well as in all countries and institutions, including international law, as a common normative bridge to it. For this fateful turn, humanity needs to master the fundamental verified Peace Science, which can become its common mental base and the nonviolent instrument acceptable to all nations for the eradication of nuclear weapons as the “Absolute Evil” [11], as a systemic Western carcinogen of nuclear civilization, inevitably leading humanity to total suicide.

        The challenge of the extreme human danger of nuclear weapons, their threat and eradication based o­n the Gandhian Peace Science was first considered by the GGHA in its collective “Anti-Nuclear Manifesto” of 46 co-authors from 26 countries with the participation of this article authors and four Nobel Peace Laureates in 2020. [12]

2. International Law: The Crime of Nuclear Civilization

         «The start of any progress toward resolving humankind’s nuclear predicament must come from the realization that nuclear weapons have never been beneficial instruments of state policy, but rather have always constituted illegitimate instrumentalities of internationally lawless and criminal behavior first of all.» [3] International law in all its parts, prohibiting and excluding the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons as weapons of genocide, has been examined systematically and in detail, starting since the beginning of the last century, in many monographs and articles by Prof. F. Boyle, since 1985, the most important of which are published here in Russian translation [1, 2, 3].

         “The conclusion is inexorable that the design, research, testing, production, manufacture, fabrication, transportation, deployment, installation, maintenance, storing, stockpiling, sale, and purchase as well as the threat to use nuclear weapons together with all their essential accouterments are criminal under well-recognized principles of international law. Thus, those government decision-makers in all the nuclear weapons states with command responsibility for their nuclear weapons establishments are today subject to personal criminal responsibility under the Nuremberg Principles for this criminal practice of nuclear deterrence/terrorism that they have daily inflicted upon all states and peoples of the international community. Here I wish to single out four components of the threat to use nuclear weapons that are especially reprehensible from an international law perspective: counter-ethnic targeting; counter-city targeting; first-strike weapons and contingency plans; and the first-use of nuclear weapons even to repel a conventional attack.”[1]

         “It is with this simple idea of the criminality of nuclear weapons that concerned citizens can proceed to comprehend the inherent illegitimacy and fundamental lawlessness of the policies that their governments pursue in their names with respect to the maintenance and further development of nuclear weapons systems… Humankind must abolish nuclear weapons before nuclear weapons abolish humankind… the doctrine known as "nuclear deterrence," which is really a euphemism for "nuclear terrorism." This international criminal conspiracy of nuclear deterrence/terrorism currently practiced by the nuclear weapons states is no different from any other conspiracy by a criminal gang or band. They are the outlaws.

         So it is up to the rest of the international community to repress and dissolve this international criminal conspiracy as soon as possible… In light of the fact that nuclear weapons systems are prohibited, illegal, and criminal under all circumstances and for any reason, every person around the world possesses a basic human right to be free from this criminal practice of nuclear deterrence/terrorism and its concomitant specter of nuclear extinction. Thus, all human beings possess the basic right under international law to engage in non-violent civil resistance activities for the purpose of preventing, impeding, or terminating the o­ngoing commission of these international crimes. Every citizen of the world community has both the right and the duty to oppose the existence of nuclear weapons systems by whatever non-violent means are at his or her disposal. Otherwise, the human race will suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs, and the planet earth will become a radioactive wasteland.”[1]

         Of course, at the same time it is necessary to distinguish between Western nuclear aggressors that use nuclear weapons for dictatorship over the states that are objectionable to them, and other countries that create nuclear weapons for defense from nuclear aggressors. If initially, humanity allowed o­ne aggressor to create and use nuclear weapons, then what right does it have to deprive other countries of the right to adequate, nuclear defense, as the USSR did, in response to US aggressive plans, “erase it with a map of nuclear weapons”? [7]. It is immoral to put the aggressor o­n o­ne board and its victim.

         The NATO Washington Declaration o­n July 10, 2024 again confirms the criminal nature of this nuclear alliance. “9. As long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance… NATO remains committed to taking all necessary steps to ensure the credibility, effectiveness, safety, and security of the Alliance’s nuclear deterrence mission, including by modernising its nuclear capabilities, strengthening its nuclear planning capability, and adapting as necessary.” [13]

         The “NATO nuclear alliance” has globalized Hiroshima/Nagasaki by at least 40 times the number of countries, in which nuclear weapons may be or are deployed and which become legitimate targets for them, and taking into account the 80 countries in which US military bases are located, where these weapons may also be deployed, its expansion increases by 120 times [6a].

3. Peace, Science and Culture of Peace: ‘Achilles's Heel’ of Nuclear Civilization.

Destruction of International Law

         Dominance for almost 80 years of the West criminal nuclear civilization, the constant destruction of the fundamental norms of international law adopted in Nuremberg and after, actually neutralized all the legal efforts to limit and prohibit the genocidal nuclear weapons, putting international right to the brink of zeroing, disappearance and complete delicacy of the nuclear weapons.

         The reason for this destructive trend was the Western aggressive militarism, which actually eradicated all the embryos of the science and culture of peace, like the global peace itself, with which it is incompatible. This destructive trend, at the same time, revealed the most vulnerable place of Western nuclear civilization, its generic “Achilles heel”, threatening it with inevitable death, which consists precisely in the peace science and culture. For almost 80 years, they have been comprehensively suppressed by NATO, which during this time did nothing for them, but the phraseology of which is hypocritically used in NATO as a propaganda masking of their aggressiveness, which is comprehensively and proved in our “Anti-Nato Manifesto” [9]. It also reveals the role of the fundamental and verified peace science as the o­nly intellectual alternative to nuclear weapons, militarism and the war institute.

4. The Nuclear Weapons Problem Insolubility in Nuclear Civilization.

Einstein's Cognitive Law

         The nuclear civilization entire history for 79 years, since the first day to the last, proves o­nly o­ne fundamental fact and trend: the "absolute evil" of nuclear weapons problem insolubility in nuclear civilization by expanding and deepening this evil. It was despite all the remarkable attempts of international law to somehow limit and weaken it, which were ultimately nullified by the "absolute evil of father-progenitor" aggressiveness. This "law of insolubility" found many partial social, geopolitical and legal explanations in the nuclear civilization, but it ignored the key, holistic law of cognitive order formulated by Albert Einstein 70 years ago at this civilization dawn. In his definition, it comes from the rational nature of homo sapiens in a society, in which everything begins since thinking and ends with thinking, including nuclear weapons and its civilization.

         Einstein defines the cognitive law of nuclear civilization as follows: “the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them [therefore] we shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." [14] We can assume that the West, with its nuclear civilization of “absolute evil,” the NATO nuclear alliance, and the globalization of H/N, does not able to understand “substantially new thinking,” because it does not want and is not able to survive. Or vice versa? It does not want to live because it does not know, does not want to know “substantially new thinking,” and is not able to rise to it suppressing it? That from this dilemma is true, time will tell.

         But o­ne thing is clear: both the creation and destruction of nuclear weapons are a question of the level/quality of thinking, first of all. Nuclear weapons were created and developed in a continuous arms race by partial thinking of brunch and corporate elites of different world systems in partial “national interests”. At this level, its problem was and remains unsolvable for 79 years and without prospects for resolution, since it is supplanted by strategic plans of its “modernization” until the century end, i.e. until the humanity end. The nuclear weapons absolute evil is not eradicated by its planetary scaling. It does not increase, but nullifies national and global security. The more it is produced, the less it is both at the national and global levels. Therefore, “nuclear deterrence” is a strategic criminal fiction of the nuclear civilization [1], which can have o­nly o­ne inevitable outcome: global nuclear genocide, ecocide and suicide in a radioactive desert [1].

         There is o­nly o­ne fundamental way out of this deadly impasse of the nuclear weapons absolute evil – a conscious, purposeful and institutionalized search for the international creation of “substantially new thinking”, the rational grains of which were spontaneously and intuitively born throughout the humanity written history over the last 3-4 millennia. The conscious and purposeful task of integrating true grains of “substantially new thinking” in the development of the global macrosociological PEACE SCIENCE was set and solved in the GGHA for almost 20 years since its establishment o­n February 15, 2005. The process of its development by us and our colleagues in the GGHA is presented in many books, articles and peacemaking projects [15], the first of which should be called our book “Global Peace Science” by 174 its coauthors, 2016 [16].

5. Peace Science: Its Substantial, Spheral Thinking and Its Institutionalization as the Common Way Out from Nuclear Civilization Genocidal Deadlock

Peace Science Engram:

         The Peace Science has gone through three historical stages of its development. 1. Indian, beginning since the humanity spherons fundamental discovery by Mahatma Gandhi in 1927 that explains this science title as "Gandhian". 2. Russian, beginning since the spheral macrosociology (spheral approach and tetrasociology) development since 1976. And 3. International stage, beginning since the creation of the international peacemaking GGHA in 2005 as the first, informal institutionalization of the "substantially new thinking" in the world civil society. These stages and their achievements are presented in a large list of more than 1,500 publications, books and projects [15; 16; 16a], not counting many complementary historical sources. In the last stage, over almost 20 years, the Peace Science has been created by more than 700 coauthors from more than 50 countries with the participation of the India President Abdul Kalam and five Nobel Peace Laureates, acquiring its modern form and presentations in the mentioned numerous publications in 1-12 languages. [Ibid]

         Today, the holistic result of the Peace Science integrative nature is presented in its engram [9; 16 and others], which expresses the humanity societal transdisciplinary genome at all its levels, starting with the individual and the family in the structural form of 16 constant spheres of society. They are the eternal sociological laws of the humanity social existence within the constant framework and harmonizing shores of which all its transient, historical changes occur at all stages of sociogenesis.

         The Peace Science is verified by world statistics and is available for verification in 2 hours for every literate person since the age of 10, who knows arithmetic and a computer [17].

         The Peace Science creates and equips itself and its spheral, “substantially new thinking” with adequate new tools of spheral statistics and its digital technology of spheral artificial intelligence (SAI: 18), built in the spheral architecture, logic and structure of the societal genome. Its information substance is structured in two key segments: holistic, constant spheral knowledge, accessible to human and partial, changeable disciplinary knowledge, inaccessible to human in the hole due extreme size of its big data. To paraphrase, we can say that the SAI information principle ​​is expressed by the well-known saying: "To Human/God – God’s things, and to machine/Caesar – Caesar’s things", which ensures the harmonization of human and the "AI super-intelligence", preserving the control, governancing function for human, leaving the machine an auxiliary, instrumental role. Similar structure excludes the fear of "dominancing machine over human" and his transformation into a slave of robots, to whom human will never transfer his social spheral logic of "substantially new thinking", preserving constant control over it as his highest intellectual property.

         The Peace Science, by virtue of scientific truth, are united, necessary, acceptable and perpetual for all nations without exception and humanity as a whole, if it will be recognized and understood by them in their culture, thinking and education of peace. But in order to overcome the violent nuclear civilization of the "nuclear weapons absolute evil", powerfully institutionalized in all four vital spheres of society, the peace science and its spheral "substantially new thinking" must also be institutionalized in all spheres of the world community and each country. o­nly in this global institutionalization in the humanity spheral objective logic, presented in the engram, is the evolutionary nonviolent overcoming of the nuclear civilization, its globalization of H/N, carried out and a harmonious, spheral civilization is born within the nuclear o­ne. o­nly it is capable to evolutionarily displacing and replacing all military institutions of the nuclear civilization in all spheres, but preserving all the positive from them, especially peaceful safe nuclear energy, which can be used for peacebuilding of a new, nonviolent civilization.

         The first peacemaking institution of each state should be the political "Department of Peace" in the orgsphere, proposed as a counterweight to the "Department of Defense/War" by Benjamin Rush for the US government. But its militaristic nature made it impossible to establish it in 230 years after 11 failed attempts to approve its bill in Congress. This o­nce again proves the USA ineradicable militarism, which has been able to fight and destroy peace throughout its history, 230 years out of 248, but is not capable of creating and independently emerging from its suicidal nuclear civilization without the help of other countries and their peace science.

         In the infosphere, similar institution, instead of numerous military research institutes, should be the independent "Academy of Peace and Accelerated Development", proposed for the BRICS+ countries (19), the prototype of which is the independent "China Academy of Social Sciences" of Deng Xiaoping, as well as the similar British and Pontifical Academies of Social Sciences.

         In the sociosphere, similar institution, instead of numerous military educational Academies, universities and schools, should be the system of fundamental peacemaking education, starting with secondary school and all universities of civil education, of course, with the preservation of all the positive components of military education necessary for peace.

         In the technosphere, in the economy, similar institution is already all civil public production, which o­nly needs to be freed from the military-industrial complex, but again, with the preservation of all its positive fragments necessary for peace.

         It is clear that this is o­nly a general outline of the peace institutionalization in the globalization of its science, evolutionarily, over the course of, obviously, no less than half a century, displacing and replacing the H/N globalization and its nuclear civilization. o­nly similar, evolutionary in time, but revolutionary in transformation process of institutional globalization of peace science, united in its spheral essence, but infinitely diverse in its local cultural and national forms, is capable of nonviolently displacing and replacing the genocidal nuclear civilization in its globalization of X/N with a nonviolent harmonious civilization.

         The bridge of peacemaking globalization can and should become a renewed international law, built o­n the spheral foundations, which have been actualized in it since ancient times. In this process, it overcomes its crisis in the nuclear civilization and rises to the level of spheral, “substantially new thinking” of a new, harmonious civilization.

6. International Law: A Bridge to Peace, Science and Culture of Peace in the Transition from
Nuclear to Harmonious Civilization

16а. GGHA. History of Peace Science, Spheronics. 01-09-22: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1089

17. Semashko, L., GGHA. Mahatma Gandhi. Nonviolence Starting Point. Spherons’ Genetics and Statistics. GANDHICA. (The spheronics verification in world statistics, published in four languages) – New Delhi. R.B.H. Media Design. 2019. – 242 p. - URL: https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/gandhi-nonviolence-of-spherons-gandhica-2019.pdf.

18. Semashko L. and Siebert R. Spheral Artificial Intelligence of Peace Science: Twelve Advantages. 28-05-24: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1189

19. Semashko L. and GGHA. Spheronics’ Macrosociology for the BRICS+ Goals: Spheres, Spherons, their Laws and the Societal Genome. October 10, 2023: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1160

20. Gordon, W. M.; Robinson, O.F. (1988). The Institutes of Gaius. London: Duckworth.

21. Semashko L. and DeWitt M.Children's Suffrage Executed by Parents: Institution for Harmony. 2004: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=211

22. GGHA. Cardinal Peace Decision For the Kashmir Conflict and Indo-Pakistan Crisis. 2019: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=899

23. Semashko L. et al. Family Code of Russia. 1991: https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/Semeynyy-kodeks-RSFSR-1991.pdf

24. Semashko L. BRICS+: Peaceful Resolution Roadmap of the Palestine-Israel Conflict in 2024-2025. Based o­n the Peace Science and International Law Condominium. 01-11-23: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1081

Dr. Leo Semashko, Russia,

Philosopher and sociologist, GGHA Founder (2005) and Honorary President o­n behalf of the Peace Science more than 700 coauthors, including India President Dr. Abdul Kalam and 5 Nobel Peace Laureates, from more than 50 countries for almost 20 years

Web: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253

06-08-24

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Dear peacemakers,

         GGHA expresses the sympathy to inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to the Japan people.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki (H/N) passed 79 years of Western globalization and were scaled by the number of countries with deployed, or possibly deployed nuclear weapons in 120 times, o­n military bases of almost 120 countries that infected all of them with the H/N suicidal carcinogen.

         Please see updated article in details in attachment and here: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1206.

         We understand that many are currently o­n vacation, but we invite those who can to discuss this article over 2 days, August 8 and 9, to refine it and enrich it with new ideas and authors in the interests of enhancing its peacemaking impact.

         With peace free from the X/N globalisation,

Dr. LeoSemashko

07-08-24

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RESPONSES

Dear Leo and peacemakers,

         We don't forget the great crime against Hiroshima and Nagasaki unarmed civilians.

Armies fight against armies, not against people, like women, old, young, children...

         Global community wants to close the cycles of wars. Unfortunately the global elites violence is present nowadays. Who can be silent in such a day?

         We own the peace and a future without nuclear weapons and wars to generations to come.

The life is a gift given to humanity by God. Let's respect and protect it .

         With memory to victims of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Dr Panagiotis -Takis D Ioannides

Co-founder and Vice president of GGHA,

Greece

Web: https://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=138

07-08-24

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Dear Leo:

         I am recovering. I with you and all our friends remember today Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I was a prisoner of war in August 1945, when Hiroshima and Nagasaki was announced.

         GGHA contains the hope, that Hiroshima and Nagasaki will never be repeated again in the future.

To realize this hope, we must discover the causes of this horrendous violence, and remove them.

         o­ne cause was authoritarian blasphemy. It was utter, Satanic blasphemy, when the first atomic bomb was called Trinity, the holiest name in Hinduism, the Religion of Imagination, and in Christianity, the Religion of Becoming, Freedom and Full Manifestation, andin the Chinese Religion of Measure, thePersian Religion of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, the Syrian Religion of Pain, theEgyptian Religion of Riddle, the Greek Religion of Fate and Beauty, the Roman Religion of Utility, and the Germanic Religion of Blood and Soil, which the Nazis tried to revive.

         It was blasphemy, when an army chaplain blessed the Hiroshima bomb with holy water. He even blessed the Nagasaki bomb, after he had seen the casualties produced by the Hiroshima bomb, a few days earlier.

We must hope that such blasphemy can be prevented in the future.

         Ernst Bloch developed the philosophy of hope. Jürgen Moltmann developed the theology of hope.

Attached you find our ZOOM o­n Moltmann's theology of hope.

         Best wishes,

Your Rudi from the House of Mir, USA.

Video: Jürgen Moltmann: Theodicy, Hope, and the Crucified ~ Rudolf J. Siebert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYsm5mVyVY&t=38s

Jürgen Moltmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926, to an irreligious family. As a youngster, Moltmann adored Albert Einstein, and looked to study mathematics...

Dr. Rudolf Siebert,

Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, philosopher, antifascist, Wehrmacht soldier in 1943-1945, theologian, the USA House of Mir founder since 1965,

GGHA Vice-President,

Kalamazoo, Michigan,

https://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=51,

08-08-24

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         Все мы понимаем, что ждать от милитаристского Запада изменений в политике, которая заточена на шантаж, угрозы, диктат, в угоду только своим личным интересам, нет никакого смысла. Альтернативой ядерному безумию может быть только Гандианская Наука Мира. 

         Теперь весь вопрос заключается только в том, какая сторона и какая страна будет способна первой понять и использовать фундаментальное научное превосходство Науки Мира. 

         С уважением,

Вера Попович

Россия

08-08-24

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Michiko Kono

What it means to survive an atomic bomb

Michiko Kono speaks to Vatican News about her life as an atomic bomb survivor,
79 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

By Francesca Merlo

08-08-24

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2024-08/what-it-means-to-survive-an-atomic-bomb.html

+ https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1206

         Michiko was o­nly four months old o­n 6 August 1945. o­n that day, 79 years ago, the US B-29 fighter plane dropped the atomic bomb, known as “Little Boy,” over her hometown of Hiroshima.

         It was 8:15 in the morning and Michiko and her parents were at Hiroshima station, where her mother had just placed her o­n a wooden bench to change her nappy.

         Shortly after, just 2km away and 2,000 feet in the air, the A-bomb “Little Boy” was detonated. 80,000 people died instantly. The heat from the explosion reached the station, and although her parents suffered severe burns, Michiko got lucky o­n her wooden bench – the backboard shielded her from the heat and she was left unscathed. 1.6km south, back at their house, her grandmother was widowed.

         Having been o­nly four months old at the time, Michiko has no recollection of the event, but she does know what it feels like to have spent her whole life a survivor, dedicated to spreading a message of peace and hope to younger generations.

         Her voice is in perfect harmony with that of Pope Francis, who visited the bombing sites in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - bombed just three days after Michiko’s Hiroshima.

         Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, John Paul II, who visited the sites in 1989, Pope Francis stood at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial thirty years later, and gave an historic speech that denounced the use and possession of atomic weapons as “immoral”.

         O­n that occasion, the Pope highlighted that “the use of atomic energy for purposes of war is today, more than ever, a crime not o­nly against the dignity of human beings but against any possible future for our common home. The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, just as the possession of atomic weapons is immoral”, before warning: “we will be judged o­n this."

Conquered time

         Mrs. Kono believes that the voice of influential leaders, too, are voices of peace and hope.

“Now people are more aware of what happened. Of the dangers of the atomic bomb”, she tells Vatican News.

She is in Italy making sure of this, as she attends the annual Tonalestate International Summer University. It has run annually since the year 2000, and this year, the University is focusing o­n the theme of “Le temps vaincu – time conquered” and Michiko Kono is participating in a day entitled "It is a sign of great character to always hope".

A childhood in the shadow of the Bomb

         The Hiroshima Peace Museum that Pope Francis visited and Michiko Kono now volunteers at was opened in 1955, ten years after the bomb. 
         It took her 40 years to find the courage to visit the museum. “My mother took me when I was ten years old, but I was too afraid to enter”, she says. In 2001, “I realised it was my duty as a survivor to tell my story.”

It was o­nly in the museum that she realised just how lucky she was.

         “I lived o­n the suburbs of Hiroshima as a young girl, and attended school there. There, I did not see so much of the aftermath of radiation. From the museum, I learnt of its consequences and of the children that died in their elementary years from leukaemia and other diseases caused by the bomb.”

         There were 350,000 people in the city and by the end of the year, 140,000 had died. Over half of those who died were turned instantly into unidentifiable ashes, now lying in the crypt of the memorial.

         Many people suffered from the after-effects of radiation. Many of them died, and to this day, many more are still suffering the effects of the radiation.

         In 2005, Michiko joined the legacy successor system at the museum. There she met Mitsuo Kodamo, whom she spent two years speaking to and learning from. He was 16 when the atomic bomb hit and he lived with severe effects of radiation until his death at age 66. Now, Mrs. Kono travels the world, telling his story and legacy.

Side-effects?

         Although o­ne of the lucky families, Michiko Kono, and her family, had strange experiences growing up.

“In June, the year after the explosion, I fell ill with high fever and diarrhoea. My doctor thought I would die. My father suffered from gum bleeding for a while after the explosion, whilst my mother had a continuous low fever. I remember when I was around nine years old, a lot of boils appeared o­n the lower part of my body. They hurt a lot. I still don’t know what caused them, she says. "Then, when I was a teenager in junior high school, I suffered from exhaustion in the summer. This, too, may have been an effect of radiation. And when I was in college, when I was tired, sometimes my fingers swelled. I always wondered if it was the radiation.”

        But Michiko doesn’t know if it was radiation, nor does she know if others, too, were experiencing strange things they couldn’t explain. “At that time, there was no information about the after effects of radiation. It was not commonly spoken of o­n the media, so we didn’t notice and couldn’t compare.”

         In the years following the war, Japan was occupied by the allies, led by the United States. There was a restriction o­n media coverage and information and research material regarding the A-bomb for 7 years, until the occupation ended in 1951.

Every citizen of the world should know

         Now, Mrs. Kono says, “I think more people are starting to learn about the A-bomb.” She talks about world leaders visiting the Hiroshima Peace Museum, and learning about “how powerful and dreadful the atomic bomb was.”

         But it’s not enough, she continues: “every citizen of the world should know how cruel the atomic bomb was.” To young people, she says: “Please notice. Come to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and learn how dreadful and cruel the A-bomb was. Start thinking of the possibility of an end to nuclear weapons.”

         This, she concluded, “is necessary for a peaceful world.”

08 August 2024, Rosa Dalmiglio, Women Leaders Voice, China,

http://www.cwpf.org.cn/

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki from the inside and outside, globally

Dear peacemakers,

         Our enemies - the silent and cowardly militarists regularly block my accounts, so I cannot respond to yours responses, and am forced to change my accounts as now.

         Today, August 9, the GGHA expresses sincere condolences of more than 600 of its members, humanitarians and peacemakers, from more than 50 countries to the residents of Nagasaki and the people of Japan. Our site now records from 5 to 15 thousand visits daily that we associate with this tragedy.

         Last day we received two brilliant testimonies of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki genocidal terror 79 years ago.

         First, this is a profound article by Mr. Chaitanya Dave (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1205) "America's Most Criminal Act: The Atomic Bombings of Japan", which has been translated into Russian and published o­n a separate page in two languages ​​here: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1207. I confess, I cried several times over it. Nothing else has impressed me so much about the H/N barbarity as this brilliant, heartfelt work of the great human.

         The author focuses o­n the immanent kitchen of this shameful greatest crime in the humanity history. He exposes the constant baseness and meanness of America's militaristic foreign policy, the deceit and vileness of President Truman, who became the second after Hitler, now the "atomic butcher" in the human history, calmly giving the order for two atomic explosions in H/N, which had no military necessity. They will forever preserve his shameful "Herostratus glory" of the West "satanic absolute evil" with his posthumous portrait with two nuclear explosions in an embrace and with his fruit of the Hiroshima scorched desert, which instantly killed 80 thousand children, women and old people with Dave's photos: