I have a "Little Boy" on my keychain!!
Science isn't their strong suit.
I don't see how the propulsion system, which is a controlled nuclear fission which heats water to produce steam, has anything to do with an uncontrolled nuclear fission in a nuclear bomb. It makes as much sense as not allowing steamboats into Chicago.
Awcrap - there're still some of them left?
The Japanese should NEVER complain about Hieroshima. They brought it on themselves and they have yet to aplogize fo the Rape of Nanking or numerous atrocities committed against Americans and Europeans and uncounted masses of non-Japanese.
The number of Japanese killed in Hieroshima is less than the number of German civilians killed in the fire-bombing of Dreden, a target of far less military significance. Hieroshima and Nagasaki prevented what would have surely been a bloodbath of Apocolytic magnitude which would have resulted n the deaths of far more Japanses and what's more important - more Americans in an invasion of the Japanese home islands.
So Hieroshima "victims" - go #$@!!& yourselves.
Hey you Japs should s.t.f.u., what are you going to do when China decides it is time to annex your little island chain?
If you've run the U.S. military out who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters?
***Basing the ship in Japan will also put the Japanese public at risk of being exposed to a radiation leak, he said. ***
No more risk than the leaky nuclear electric plants in Japan now!
Tough Roentgens! Go tell it to your rabid departed ancestors1
That's like saying that we shouldn't ever send an Arleigh Burke destroyer to visit Korea or Vietnam because we used napalm there and the Burke destroyers are powered by jet fuel.
Upon hearing of this protest, I was reminded of a statement by a Japanese pilot who was visitng the Smithsonian to see a plane he had flown while training to conduct a chemical attack against an American naval base. He said he was gratified to see that visitors looking at his bird would have Enola Gay in their field of vision, so they could see his plane as well as the plane that saved his life and saved his country.
Damn it all, we missed.
Did these people also protest "The Rape of Nanking?"
Considering the city of San Francisco (population roughly 750,000) recently rejected siting the Iowa (which coincidentally was Admiral Halsey's flagship at the surrender ceremony), finding "about 80" protestors in a country of 125 million isn't exactly an overwhelming response. (Assuming the A.P.'s usual accuracy, "about 80 people" probably means substantially less than 80. ;-)
Apparently, even Jesse Jackson can find more protestors than that to protest people opposing the formation of a graduate student union at Yale.