Hiroshima to express opinion at U.S. forum on new national park involving A-bomb project sites
Nov. 12, 2015
by Michiko Tanaka, Staff Writer
Yasuyoshi Komizo, the chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, will be dispatched to a forum held in Washington D.C. on November 9 and 10, the City of Hiroshima announced on November 4. The forum has been organized by the U.S. Department of the Interior, which is overseeing a plan to create a national park from properties connected to the Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort that produced the atomic bombs. Mr. Komizo will request that the park offer information on the terrible consequences of the use of these weapons.
According to an official of the city’s Peace Promotion Division, the forum is intended to hear views from experts in various fields in order to decide the kind of information that will be provided to visitors to the park, and how that information will be conveyed. The forum will not be open to the public. In late September, the National Park Service, which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, asked Hiroshima to send a delegate. Mr. Komizo will carry a message from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and a pictorial record of the damage caused by the atomic bombing. Nagasaki will send Masao Tomonaga, the honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, according to the Nagasaki city government.
Three sites that were involved in the A-bomb project, including Los Alamos, New Mexico, will make up the national park. The plan for the new park will be officially endorsed at a signing ceremony involving the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy. The Peace Promotion Division commented that the park should explain that people are still suffering from the effects of the atomic bombings and that the voices of the A-bomb survivors should be reflected in the plan.
(Originally published on November 5, 2015)
Yasuyoshi Komizo, the chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, will be dispatched to a forum held in Washington D.C. on November 9 and 10, the City of Hiroshima announced on November 4. The forum has been organized by the U.S. Department of the Interior, which is overseeing a plan to create a national park from properties connected to the Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort that produced the atomic bombs. Mr. Komizo will request that the park offer information on the terrible consequences of the use of these weapons.
According to an official of the city’s Peace Promotion Division, the forum is intended to hear views from experts in various fields in order to decide the kind of information that will be provided to visitors to the park, and how that information will be conveyed. The forum will not be open to the public. In late September, the National Park Service, which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, asked Hiroshima to send a delegate. Mr. Komizo will carry a message from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and a pictorial record of the damage caused by the atomic bombing. Nagasaki will send Masao Tomonaga, the honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, according to the Nagasaki city government.
Three sites that were involved in the A-bomb project, including Los Alamos, New Mexico, will make up the national park. The plan for the new park will be officially endorsed at a signing ceremony involving the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy. The Peace Promotion Division commented that the park should explain that people are still suffering from the effects of the atomic bombings and that the voices of the A-bomb survivors should be reflected in the plan.
(Originally published on November 5, 2015)
