TodaysNetworkNews: 06 August 2009 - UNTV: United Nations: On the occasion of the 64th anniversary this week of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls on the world to "convince leaders, once and for all, of the waste, futility and dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction."
On the occasion of the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and issued an urgent call that we must disarm.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
Sixty-four years ago, atom bombs rained down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon seeing such horror and devastation, people throughout the world thought such carnage must never happen again. But thousands of nuclear weapons remain in global arsenals. The risk of nuclear terrorism is real.
Early development of nuclear weapons took place here at Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the United States during the Second World War. The first-ever nuclear test was conducted in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.
Three weeks later, on 6 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb - known as "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb contained the equivalent of between 12 and 15,000 tons of TNT and devastated an area of five square miles or 13 square kilometers. More than 60 percent of the buildings in the city were destroyed.
A second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki followed on 9 August. Japan surrendered a few days later, thereby ending World War II.
The impact of the two bombs and later radiation effects killed an estimated 220,000 people.
On the anniversary of the attacks to date the only time in history when nuclear weapons were used UN Secretary-General said the world needs to disarm in order to save lives and redirect precious resources to health, education and development.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
Let us convince leaders, once and for all, of the waste, futility and dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.In the face of this catastrophic threat, our message is clear: Together, we must disarm!
At UN headquarters today (5 August), United States Ambassador Susan Rice spoke to reporters about yesterday's announcement that US President Barack Obama will chair a high-level UN Security Council meeting on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this fall.
Rice said Obama wanted the summit, to be held on 24 September during the annual high-level segment of the General Assembly, to focus on the issues he raised in his Prague speech in April, in which he pledged to eventually eliminate nuclear weapons.
Asked about other member states responses and the expected outcome of the summit, Rice said it was too early to forecast the RSVPs, but that she hoped for a well-attended session, as it will be one of the rare occasions in which the Security Council has met at the heads-of-state level.
She also said next years review conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) was an important milestone, and that if the Security Council could lend positive impetus to that with the upcoming summit we would find that very valuable.
SEE: NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMBSITE REMEMBERED by MAXWELL H. STAMPER (MaximsNews Network), http://www.maximsnews.com/news20090809maxwellhstamperatomicbomb10908090101.htm
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Hiroshima - Nagasaki Atomic bombing 1945 Augby anilghosh74,905 views
I cant believe... we did this... to those innocent people. Sure they bombed Pearl Habor, but they did not kill our wifes and childred. This is the perfect America? Do we really believe we can make all world prolblems better, because we believe we're better? Look at what we've done.
Gothmogable 5 months ago
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Today those weapons are in the hands of factions far more crazy and irresponsible than in 1945. and the organization you head proved itself as the most impotent, biased and incapable international body in human history.
The world is on the fast track towards a Nuclear, third world war that will extinguish humanity. And all your UN “soldiers” will be waving hands, shouting "Please stop" When Iran launches the bomb to start it all.
I wish to be optimistic, but I cannot. I am terrified.
igortroy 1 year ago
a world without weapons of mass destruction?
does this planetary Utopia include Iran? And Pakistan? North Korea? how about Syria and Egypt who want Nukes too?
What the United States did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two of the worst war crimes in history. With all my sympathy to them today – that war could be ended without instantly burning tens of thousands civilians, and making hundreds of thousands more die from radiation.
ended with an invasion by the Soviet Union to Japan, for example >>
igortroy 1 year ago
@gloryboundkev thank you, i didnt know about this information, i will do it
iraquiano 1 year ago
NSSM 200 was the suggestions by Henry Kissenger to the United Nations in 1974 on how to best depopulate the world through vaccinations based on what the doctors did at Unit 731. Reasearch it and watch the videos on my channel on the Depopulation Agenda of the New World Order.
gloryboundkev 1 year ago
@iraquiano
research "Unit 731"
Japan was using live humans to experiment with the effects of biological weapons and how best to kill people en masse. They sent balloons filled with biological agents across the ocean to california and were planning kamikazee missions carrying biological weapons to the USA but the mission was stopped because the war ended. The research of dimented doctors at Unit 731 was given to the UN in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
gloryboundkev 1 year ago
@gloryboundkev ohh, where did u see this?? really, i want to see this informations, i´m not doubting you
iraquiano 1 year ago
the japs were planning to bomb the USA less than one month later wth biological weapons using kamikazees. the plan was stopped.
gloryboundkev 2 years ago
,,,TodaysNerWorkNews = should watch ....YouTube video:......little girl who saw MEANS SIGNS at Obama Twon Hall PLANTED..............and then Goggle the little girls MOM'S name = Kathleen Manning Hall..............and READ about the NON-Transparent actions of Obama and his knowing this little girl and PRETENDING he did not even know them!...........(ps = this is an excellant video...my grandfathers ship THE ARIZONA rests in Pearl Harbor = God Bless their souls and may it never be so again)
memama2 2 years ago