By Leonard Eiger Today marks the anniversary of the day in which the world entered the atomic age. On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test code-named Trinity, the experimental device known as the “Gadget” was detonated, creating a light “brighter than a thousand suns.” A mere 6 kilogram (13.2 pound) sphere of plutonium, compressed to supercriticality by the surrounding high explosives, created an explosion equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT (20 Kilotons). Was this, as thought nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the beginning of […]
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Ground Zero Creates Billboards Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Editor’s Note: The following news release was sent out to media outlets on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Seattle area Billboards inform citizens of Nuclear Weapons stockpiled in their Back Yard on the 75th Remembrance of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Contacts: Leonard Eiger (425) 445-2190, outreach@gzcenter.org Rodney Brunelle (425) 485-7030 Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 On July 13, and continuing for four weeks, four billboards will display the following paid advertisement: Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor… Base with largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the U.S., Remembering the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Accept Responsibility! Included in the advertisement […]
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Watch “Nuclear Voices: Centering Justice in the Fight for Nuclear Abolition”
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action hosted a live, online event for its annual Mothers Day event on Saturday, May 9th. Lilly Adams, a nuclear weapons outreach consultant for the Cambridge, MA-based Union of Concerned Scientists and formerly with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, delivered the keynote address, and then answered people’s questions. You can watch the webinar at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/z-FRaPK3xk1JGtL89WXyRaMdPLj7aaa81Xcb_KFbyUroXjyOQYg6aXM7_z7nmI3R Lilly, who received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund Women’s Initiative for a project to build connections with nuclear frontline communities and amplify issues of nuclear justice, spoke about building the nuclear weapons movement for the next […]
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Addressing the threats to Planetary Survival!
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is a signatory to the Earth Day 2020 sign on statement from members of the Abolition 2000 global network to eliminate nuclear weapons: “Addressing the threats to Planetary Survival” The year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day[i] and finds the planet facing existential threats like never before in human history. The threat from climate change is manifesting itself more and more strongly as the years go by through extreme weather events, forest fires on a vast scale, the bleaching of coral reefs, and receding glaciers, among others. This year also sees the […]
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Pacific Northwest Peace Pagoda, a dream revived
Written by Glen Milner In August people traveled from across the U.S. and Japan to Poulsbo, Washington, to celebrate the ground purification ceremony for what will be the first peace pagoda on the West Coast by the Nipponzan Myohoji Order. The 150 attending the ceremony witnessed a living prayer for peace; with a soft breeze moving the many colorful flags, and sunlight illuminating the grass, the trees, and the opened earth for the peace pagoda. The pagoda project is being led by Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist nuns, monks, and their supporters. The ground purification ceremony or Jichin-sai, is a traditional Buddhist […]
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