[ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

[Flood, John]

We were met by protesters at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site this morning - all peaceful, as appropriate.

I can't help but see a grand irony here.  These undoubtedly sincere people choose this occasion to express their displeasure with nuclear weapons, but it's not the bomb that's the problem. There's nothing that can be done to adjust the bomb to make the resulting deaths better or worse than other war-caused deaths.  It is the act of war that is the problem, not the inanimate objects used as tools of war.  I just don't understand the thought process that leads to protesting one type, but only one type, of weapon used in war.

John R. (Bob) Flood
Radiological Health
Nevada Test Site
(702) 295-2514

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Mercado, Don
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:25 AM
To: Peter Bossew; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

The bombings were not a crime. They were an act of self defense. Japan attacked us first. We just ended it.

DPM

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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Peter Bossew
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:42 AM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

One crime does not justify another.

pb




Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] wrote:
> Should we offer a moment of silence for all those Chinese and Asian 
> civilians killed by the Japanese?
>  
>
> -- John
> John P. Jacobus, MS, CHP
> Senior Health Physicist
> National Institutes of Health
> Division of Radiation Safety
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> 	From: Johnston, Thomas [mailto:Tom_Johnston at nymc.edu] 
> 	Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:55 AM
> 	To: Academic-Medical Radiation Safety Officers listserve; 
> radsafe at radlab.nl
> 	Subject: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of 
> Silence
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> 	
>
> 	Hello Everyone,
>
> 	 
>
> 	On This Day - NY Times
>
> 	On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device over 
> Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people.
>
> 	The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
>
> 	 
>
> 	May we all observe a moment of silence.
>
> 	 
>
> 	Tom
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> 	 
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