Posted on 10/29/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT by ncountylee
TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said.
The protest came as talks got underway between top Japanese and American security officials on how to realign the U.S. military presence in Japan.
About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who heads the Hiroshima Peace Movement Center.
"It makes me angry that America can even consider basing a nuclear carrier in Japan, the only country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack," Kajikawa said.
Basing the ship in Japan will also put the Japanese public at risk of being exposed to a radiation leak, he said.
The U.S. has said the carrier can be operated safely in Japanese waters. American Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told reporters Friday that nuclear ships had made 1,200 visits to Japan in the past 40 years without harming the environment.
The U.S. Navy said it decided to replace the conventional aircraft carrier now based in Yokosuka, just outside Tokyo, with the nuclear-powered ship because it has greater capabilities.
"Nukes and people are a really bad combo."
You realize we're talking about a nuclear POWERED carrier here. We are not proposing to drop atom bombs on them again.
The protestors (and everybody else) knows exactly what's being carried.
"electricity" for the non-fatfingered............
According to this:
That count includes the George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) still under construction. Is it more likely to be one whose homeport is the Pacific, or does that not matter ?
You have a small imagination. The A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki probably saved my father's life, as well aws the lives of over a million American infantrymen, and I don't care who died as a consequence. Apparently the scope of modern war is beyond your ability to imagine.
Wrong! We can imagine it. The dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima was the right decision. It saved lives on both sides and shortened the war.You miss the whole point.
>The carrier will have more than a nuclear power plant on it.
The protestors (and everybody else) knows exactly what's being carried.<
As are the majority of US Navy vessels bigger than the FFG class. No news there, these morons are protesting the NUCLEAR! power plant, expecting it will leak like a Senate hearing.............
What?! We left some alive?
These people are just trying to gain some mileage toward their personal political agendas. The Japanese really know deep down inside their hearts of hearts that had the U.S. not dropped the two bombs, the U.S. consequently would have had to invade. As a result, the Japanese would have suffered millions of casualities. Also, the Soviets would have declared war on the Japanese and would have participated in the invasion which would have led to a partition of Japan after the war between the Soviets and the U.S. So, the best outcome that the Japanese could have hoped for was the one that came about as a result of Truman having the courage to drop Little Bob and Fat Man.
You've got it right snoringbear.
I'd be interested in hearing an elaboration of that comment.
The way it always seemed to work was that one of the oldest carriers was in Yoko. Coral Sea, then Independence, then Kitty Hawk. But it seems to me that with the proximity to the Indian Ocean, China, North Korea, etc. the Navy may want to put a top of the line CVN there.
They were the generation that attacked Pearl Harbor. Now they attack with their stinking toiletas and honduhs.
>You have a small imagination. The A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki probably saved my father's life, as well aws the lives of over a million American infantrymen, and I don't care who died as a consequence.<
Semper Fi. My dad was a HM in the Pacific campaign as well, and that was precisely what he told me, many times over. He was convinced he would not be alive (and me not conceived) if we had not nuked Japan. He was there, I will take his conviction over latter day theorizing anyday............
I seriously doubt Tojo and his lackeys gave the slightest thought to what women and children thought about making war.
However, Americans who blame women and children for Tojo's actions are beneath contempt.
Semper Fi, doorgunner69. What outfit were you with?
Yep
Why is it that Nagasaki and Hiroshima were able to be re-inhabited after having an atomic weapon dropped on them? The libs would have you think that the fallout from one of these would make the area uninhabitable for thousands of years. I'm not trying to minimize the danger of nuclear or atomic weapons material, but is it really as bad as the leftists would have us believe? Is the spent fuel from our nuclear reactors as dangerous to us as well?
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