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1. Australia is the largest exporter of Uranium.

2. Wyoming is the State with the largest reserve of

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3. A female spy stole the Manhattan Project Secrets

and gave the nuclear bomb information to England's

nuclear scientists.

4. Japan is the first country victimized by nuclear

bomb atrocities.

5. Adolph Hitler wanted to use nuclear bomb to conquer

Europe, Russia and the US.

6. Nigeria has the largest uranium reserve in Africa.

7. Oakland Laboratory in the US supplied the uranium

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Hiroshima Survivors Call for Ban on Nukes

By BARRY MASSEY, Associated Press Writer

Sun Aug 7, 5:24 AM ET

 

 

 

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Survivors of the deadly blasts that

devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago joined

hundreds of activists in support of a global ban on

nuclear weapons.

 

 

 

They rallied Saturday at the birthplace of the atomic

bomb, outside the national labs that feed today's

nuclear arsenal, on the tiny island where the Enola

Gay took off for Hiroshima with its deadly payload,

and in the nation's capital.

 

Bombing survivor Koji Ueda attended a rally in the Los

Alamos park where there were research laboratories

when the Manhattan Project developed the world's first

atomic bomb.

 

" No more Hiroshimas. No more Nagasakis, " Ueda said.

" We send this message to our friends all over the

world, along with a fresh determination of the

'hibakusha' (atomic bomb survivors) to continue to

tell about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aiming at a planet

set free of wars of nuclear weapons. "

 

In Oak Ridge, Tenn., 15 protesters from a group of

more than 1,000 were arrested for blocking a road

outside the heavily guarded weapons factory that

helped fuel the bomb during World War II.

 

At the Nevada Test Site, about 200 peace activists,

including actor Martin Sheen, gathered for a

nonviolent demonstration outside the gates. Dozens

were given citations and released after crossing

police lines. There was no immediate count of exactly

how many were detained.

 

In California, hundreds of activists marched to the

gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, some

holding sunflowers and others hoisting a 40-foot

inflatable " missile. "

 

The city of Hiroshima, meanwhile, marked the

anniversary with prayers and water for the dead.

 

At 8:15 a.m., the instant of the blast, Hiroshima's

trolleys stopped and more than 55,000 people at Peace

Memorial Park observed a moment of silence that was

broken only by the ringing of a bronze bell.

 

Ueda, who was 3 when the bomb was dropped on

Hiroshima, was joined at Los Alamos by Masako Hashida,

who was 15 and working in a factory a mile from where

the second bomb fell three days later on Nagasaki.

 

In an interview with The Associated Press, Hashida

recalled hearing a loud metallic noise and then seeing

waves of red, blue, purple and yellow light. She said

she lost consciousness and awoke outside the twisted

metal ruins of the factory, which had made torpedoes

used in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

She saw a person trying to stand, with burns and

swelling so severe it was impossible to tell if it was

a man or a woman.

 

In the Los Alamos park where research laboratories

stood during the Manhattan Project, placards carried

anti-war slogans including " No More War for Oil and

Empire. "

 

A group of veterans offered an opposing message across

the park from the more than 500 activists. One sign

read: " If there hadn't been a Pearl Harbor, there

wouldn't have been a Hiroshima. "

 

In Washington, G.R. Quinn, 54, of Bethesda, Md., held

a sign across from the White House reading: " God Bless

the Enola Gay, " referring to the B-29 that dropped the

first bomb. Nearby, about three dozen peace activists

declared President Bush was not doing enough for

nuclear disarmament.

 

More than 300 activists marched to the gates of

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, about 50 miles

east of San Francisco, some planning to plant the

sunflowers they outside its fence.

 

The facility was created years after the bombs were

dropped, but it has helped develop nuclear weapons in

the nation's current arsenal.

 

A group of U.S. veterans met with atomic bomb

survivors on the tiny island of Tinian in the Northern

Mariana Islands to commemorate the anniversary. The

island was the launching off point for the plane Enola

Gay, which dropped its deadly payload over Hiroshima

in 1945.

 

About 70 veterans and several survivors agreed to use

their final years to advocate world peace and call for

an end to nuclear proliferation.

 

The uranium for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was

supplied by the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak

Ridge, which continues to make parts for every warhead

in the country's nuclear arsenal.

 

More than 1,000 demonstrators carrying signs and

beating drums marched outside the Y-12 gates in the

largest peace protest ever in the city, which was

built in secrecy during World War II. Fifteen

protesters were arrested for blocking the road about

100 yards from the entrance, a misdemeanor.

 

" Those of us who live here have a special, maybe

accidental, responsibility to think about the hard

sides of these questions, " said Fran Ansley, a

University of Tennessee law professor.

 

___

 

Associated Press writers Christina Almeida in Las

Vegas, Duncan Mansfield in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Pete

Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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