[van-announce] Re: Come Sign My Bomb

[Conrad Schmidt]

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. 200,000 people, mostly women and children, died. The bomb dropped was a tiny 15 Kiloton bomb, a humble comparison to the 100,000 Kiloton bombs of today. Three days later a second Atomic Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Though the amount of energy generated by that bomb was significantly larger, the damage given to that city was slighter due to the geographic structure of the city. Another 70,000 people died from that bombing.
  
The Bush administration has asked United States congress to authorize the use of a new generation of nuclear bombs. The US is also in negotiations with Canada to install a common Ballistic Missile Defence System. The missile defence system being proposed is smaller to the original Stars Wars program.
  
Star Wars was a failure because:
1) It was too expensive.
2) The technology did not exist.
3) It encouraged other nations to build smaller nuclear bombs that could be smuggled into target areas
4) It forced other nations into a potentially catastrophic arms race.
  
On August 6, 2003, Artists Against War is planning the following event in remembrance of the 270,000 people that died and to prove that the planned missile defence system is flawed:  

"Come sign my bomb."
http://www.ArtistsAgainstWar.org/hiroshima.htm  (Info is located at this website)
  
If anybody would like to help with this critical event please contact Conrad at ninemonkeys at blaze.ca, 604-537-2044
We need as much help as possible.
We need writers, artists, people to help with postering and more.


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