{"id":6234,"date":"2016-05-31T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:10:51","slug":"usa-over-seventy-prominent-scholars-and-activists-urge-obama-to-meet-hibakusha-take-further-steps-on-nuclear-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6234","title":{"rendered":"USA: Over Seventy Prominent Scholars and Activists Urge Obama to meet Hibakusha, Take Further Steps on Nuclear Disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .<\/p>\n

A letter published by Peace Action<\/a><\/p>\n

To President Barack Obama, May 23, 2016<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. President,<\/p>\n

We were happy to learn of your plans to be the first sitting president of the United States to visit Hiroshima this week, after the G-7 economic summit in Japan. Many of us have been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and found it a profound, life-changing experience, as did Secretary of State John Kerry on his recent visit.<\/p>\n

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In particular, meeting and hearing the personal stories of A-bomb survivors, Hibakusha, has made a unique impact on our work for global peace and disarmament. Learning of the suffering of the Hibakusha, but also their wisdom, their awe-inspiring sense of humanity, and steadfast advocacy of nuclear abolition so the horror they experienced can never happen again to other human beings, is a precious gift that cannot help but strengthen anyone\u2019s resolve to dispose of the nuclear menace.<\/p>\n

Your 2009 Prague speech calling for a world free of nuclear weapons inspired hope around the world, and the New START pact with Russia, historic nuclear agreement with Iran and securing and reducing stocks of nuclear weapons-grade material globally have been significant achievements.<\/p>\n

Yet, with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons (93% held by the U.S. and Russia) still threatening all the peoples of the planet, much more needs to be done. We believe you can still offer crucial leadership in your remaining time in office to move more boldly toward a world without nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

In this light, we strongly urge you to honor your promise in Prague to work for a nuclear weapons-free world by:<\/p>\n

Meeting with all Hibakusha who are able to attend;<\/p>\n

Announcing the end of U.S. plans to spend $1 trillion for the new generation of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems;<\/p>\n

Reinvigorating nuclear disarmament negotiations to go beyond New START by announcing the unilateral reduction of the deployed U.S. arsenal to 1,000 nuclear weapons or fewer;<\/p>\n

Calling on Russia to join with the United States in convening the \u201cgood faith negotiations\u201d required by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty for the complete elimination of the world\u2019s nuclear arsenals;<\/p>\n

Reconsidering your refusal to apologize or discuss the history surrounding the A-bombings, which even President Eisenhower, Generals MacArthur, King, Arnold, and LeMay and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz stated were not necessary to end the war.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Gar Alperowitz, Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland<\/p>\n

Christian Appy, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts,<\/p>\n

Amherst, author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity<\/p>\n

Colin Archer, Secretary-General, International Peace Bureau<\/p>\n

Charles K. Armstrong, Professor of History, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Medea Benjamin, Co-founder, CODE PINK, Women for Peace and Global Exchange<\/p>\n

Phyllis Bennis, Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies<\/p>\n

Herbert Bix, Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton<\/p>\n

Norman Birnbaum, University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center<\/p>\n

Reiner Braun, Co-President, International Peace Bureau<\/p>\n

Philip Brenner, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Graduate Program in US Foreign Policy and National Security, American University<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener, United for Peace and Justice<\/p>\n

James Carroll, Author of An American Requiem<\/p>\n

Noam Chomsky, Professor (emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame and former Executive Director, SANE<\/p>\n

Frank Costigliola, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, niversity of Connecticut<\/p>\n

Bruce Cumings, Professor of History, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n

Carolyn Eisenberg, Professor of U.S. Diplomatic History, Hofstra University<\/p>\n

Daniel Ellsberg, Former State and Defense Department official<\/p>\n

John Feffer, Director, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Studies<\/p>\n

Gordon Fellman, Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies, Brandeis University.
\nBill Fletcher, Jr., Talk Show Host, Writer & Activist.<\/p>\n

Norma Field, professor emerita, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Carolyn Forch\u00e9, University Professor, Georgetown University<\/p>\n

Max Paul Friedman, Professor of History, American University.<\/p>\n

Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.<\/p>\n

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Question related to this article:<\/div>\n
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Can we abolish all nuclear weapons?<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(letter continued from left column)<\/p>\n

Lloyd Gardner, Professor of History Emeritus, Rutgers University, author Architects of Illusion and The Road to Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Irene Gendzier Prof. Emeritus, Department of of History, Boston University<\/p>\n

Joseph Gerson, Director, American Friends Service Committee Peace & Economic Security Program, author of With Hiroshima Eyes and Empire and the Bomb<\/p>\n

Todd Gitlin, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Andrew Gordon. Professor of History, Harvard University
\nJohn Hallam, Human Survival Project, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia<\/p>\n

Melvin Hardy, Heiwa Peace Committee, Washington, DC<\/p>\n

Laura Hein, Professor of History, Northwestern University<\/p>\n

Martin Hellman, Member, US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Kate Hudson, General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)<\/p>\n

Paul Joseph, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University<\/p>\n

Louis Kampf, Professor of Humanities Emeritus MIT<\/p>\n

Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University<\/p>\n

Asaf Kfoury, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Boston University<\/p>\n

Peter King, Honorary Associate, Government & International Relations School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW<\/p>\n

David Krieger, President Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/p>\n

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, is author of Beyond the Laboratory<\/p>\n

John W. Lamperti, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Dartmouth College<\/p>\n

Steven Leeper, Co-founder PEACE Institute, Former Chairman, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation<\/p>\n

Robert Jay Lifton, MD, Lecturer in Psychiatry Columbia University, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The City University of New York<\/p>\n

Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota, Author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era<\/p>\n

Kevin Martin, President, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund<\/p>\n

Ray McGovern, Veterans For Peace, Former Head of CIA Soviet Desk and Presidential Daily Briefer<\/p>\n

David McReynolds, Former Chair, War Resister International<\/p>\n

Zia Mian, Professor, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Tetsuo Najita, Professor of Japanese History, Emeritus, University of Chicago, former president of Association of Asian Studies<\/p>\n

Sophie Quinn-Judge, Retired Professor, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society, Temple University<\/p>\n

Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University, Veteran, United States Army<\/p>\n

Betty Reardon, Founding Director Emeritus of the International Institute on Peace Education, Teachers College, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Terry Rockefeller, Founding Member, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows,<\/p>\n

David Rothauser Filmmaker, Memory Productions, producer of \u201cHibakusha, Our Life to Live\u201d and \u201cArticle 9 Comes to America<\/p>\n

James C. Scott, Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, ex-President of the Association of Asian Studies<\/p>\n

Peter Dale Scott, Professor of English Emeritus, University of California, Berkleley and author of American War Machine<\/p>\n

Mark Selden, Senior Research Associate Cornell University, editor, Asia-Pacific Journal, coauthor, The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki<\/p>\n

Martin Sherwin, Professor of History, George Mason University, Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus<\/p>\n

John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Committee<\/p>\n

Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning writer and director<\/p>\n

David Swanson, director of World Beyond War<\/p>\n

Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founder, Future of Life Institute<\/p>\n

Ellen Thomas, Proposition One Campaign Executive Director, Co-Chair, Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom (US) Disarm\/End Wars Issue Committee<\/p>\n

Michael True, Emeritus Professor, Assumption College, is co-founder of the Center for Nonviolent Solutions<\/p>\n

David Vine, Professor, Department of Sociology, American University<\/p>\n

Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament 2009 Laureate, Right Livelihood Award<\/p>\n

Dave Webb, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)<\/p>\n

Jon Weiner, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California Irvine<\/p>\n

Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History emeritus, SUNY\/Albany<\/p>\n

Col. Ann Wright, US Army Reserved (Ret.) & former US diplomat<\/p>\n

Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University<\/p>\n

Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics & Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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