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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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It was a very timely and poignant recognition since August 6th and 9th were the 54th anniversaries of the dropping on Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; and the Santa Fe Bypass was being completed to ship nuclear waste shipments to the W.
The atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 led the PPU that autumn to publish the first leaflet against nuclear war, and in 1950, as the Cold War superseded the peace for which the world had supposedly fought, the PPU organised in Trafalgar Square the first mass rally against nuclear weapons.
Using atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki stopped the war almost immediately, but thousands of innocent Japanese civilians died in the blasts and of radiation poisoning.
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