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With the announcement on January 17, 2007 by Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that the hands of the famous “doomsday clock” had been moved two minutes closer to midnight, people everywhere understood the gravity facing the world in a way that no speech, no report, indeed, that no words, could convey.  Over a thousand news outlets worldwide covered the event, quoting  Benedict, who said, "this c Read more »

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Livermore Marks Hiroshima Day by Looking Closer to Home

“In Hiroshima, there is a stone monument that says ‘Please sleep in rest. We will not repeat the same mistake.’ But we did. This time, by our own hands. Right now, in Japan, nuclear power plant radiation is affecting citizens physically and mentally as it was in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

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