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NAGASAKI, JAPANNagasaki is one of Japan’s leading ports. The port was known to Portuguese and Spanish traders before it was opened to the Dutch in 1567. Trade with the West was restricted between 1641-1858, but Nagasaki was gradually opened to trade during the 1850s. The city was long a centre for Christianity and had, until 1945, Japan’s largest Roman Catholic Cathedral. On August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the target of the second atomic bomb ever detonated on a populated area. About 75,000 people were killed or wounded, and more than one third of the city was devastated. Among Nagasaki’s landmarks is Glover |
4/12/2010
Press Release - Oswiecim AppealMayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching
United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York
Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
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