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Service members from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., pull security as they prepare to seize control of the abandoned Satsop nuclear power plant in Elma., Nov. 12. The service members were participating in a weapons of mass destruction site exploitation exercise.
Cpl. Walter Pablo (front), an explosive ordnance disposal team member with 741st Ordnance Company, 3rd Ordnance Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), and his team leader, Staff Sgt. Marquell Bennett (rear), use a laptop to identify the origins of a simulated chemically active device during one of 12 incident scenarios of the 71st EOD Team of the Year competition, Apr. 9, 2018, at Fort Carson, Colo. Bennett and Pablo are one of three two-man teams competing for the honor of representing the 71st EOD in the Department of Defense EOD competition, to be held in June. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), Public Affairs)
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The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall was constructed in 1915 as a base for promoting the sale of goods produced in Hiroshima Prefecture. The building designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel was highly regarded for its imposing, European-style design. Its name changed to Hiroshima Prefectural Products Exhibition Hall and then to Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. Intensification of the war led the government to discontinue commercial uses of the Industrial Promotion Hall in March 1944. Instead, it housed the branch office of the Chugoku Shikoku Public Works Office of the Internal Affairs Agency and the offices of the Hiroshima District Lumber and Japan Lumber Control Corporation.
When the atomic bomb exploded, it ravaged the building instantly. Heat blazing from above consumed the entire building, killing everyone in it. Because the blast attacked the building from virtually straight overhead, some walls escaped total collapse. Along with the wire framework of the dome, these form the shape that has become a symbol. At some point it became known as the "A-bomb Dome."
In 1966, Hiroshima City determined to preserve the A-bomb Dome indefinitely and solicited funds from within Japan and overseas. To date, the A-bomb Dome has undergone two preservation projects.
As a historical witness that conveys the disaster of the first atomic bombing in history, and as a symbol of the vow to pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and enduring peace, in December 1996 the A-bomb Dome was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List based on the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Soldiers assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., pull security for Soldiers moving forward to seize control of the abandoned Satsop nuclear power plant in Elma, Nov. 12. They were participating in a weapons of mass destruction site exploitation exercise.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington service member pulls security at the abandoned Satsop nuclear power plant, Nov. 12. He was participating in a weapons of mass destruction site exploitation exercise.
Settle down now... I haven't gone mad, nor am I on something! This thorny rose bush just cried out for some action... so I obliged!
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Two Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., based Soldiers look for enemy personnel in a poorly-lit room at the SATSOP Nuclear Power Plant in Elma, Wash., Nov. 12. The 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade utilized the power plant to replicate a weapons of mass destruction exploitation and elimination mission. The power plant has remained inactive since construction ended in 1983.
Just imagine what would happen if these weapons would fall into the hands of international terrorists!
To make up for the labor shortage, the government enacted the Student Labor Service Act in August 1944. This act required students in middle school and higher grades to perform labor service in munitions factories and the like. Then, in November, many students were required to participate in tearing down homes and other buildings (building demolition). The purpose was to create fire-breaks to limit the expansion of fire in the event of air attacks. In Hiroshima City, of the roughly 8,400 students in the national upper level schools, about 6,300 died on the day of the bombing.
Most students working at various industries around the city were also killed.
After the war, the government only permitted mobilized students killed in the atomic bombing or in air strikes whose names and date of death were known to be enshrined in Yasukuni Shrine. In response to this, bereaved families began a movement to create a list of the dead and donated funds to build this tower.
Staff Sgt. Michael Hagberg, an explosive ordnance disposal team leader with 704th Ordnance Company, 79th Ordnance Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), carefully removes a simulated explosive device that he found buried in the area surrounding a simulated weapons cache during one of 12 incident scenarios of the 71st EOD Team of the Year competition, Apr. 10, 2018, at Fort Carson, Colo. Hagberg is one of three two-man teams competing for the honor of representing the 71st EOD in the Department of Defense EOD competition, to be held in June. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), Public Affairs)
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Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Jansen (left), an operations noncommissioned officer with 71st Ordnance Group (EOD) and assistant events coordinator for the 71st EOD Team of the Year competition, gives candidates of the competition instructions on how to correctly perform the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT), Apr. 8, 2018, at Fort Carson, Colo. The APFT is the first of multiple rigorous tasks that each candidate must perform, either individually or as a two-man team. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), Public Affairs)
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A Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., based Soldier looks toward one of two cooling towers at the SATSOP Nuclear Power Plant in Elma, Wash., Nov. 12. The 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade utilized the power plant to replicate a weapons of mass destruction exploitation and elimination mission. The power plant has remained inactive since construction ended in 1983.
I thought this was fun until The Dude pointed out, you do realize you just asked me to take your picture with a giant killing device, right?
In the second basement of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims is the Hall of Remembrance, a cylindrical space with a high ceiling. Here is a place to quietly mourn A-bomb victims and reflect on peace. To show visitors the magnitude of the damage caused by the atomic bomb, the hall presents a panoramic view of the A-bombed city from Shima Hospital, located close to the atomic bomb hypocenter, with 140,000 roof tiles?equal to the number of people estimated to have died as a result of the atomic bomb by the end of 1945.
From the first basement, which has an entrance to the building, a counter-clockwise spiral slope leads to the Hall of Remembrance. This slope represents travel from the present to the past, when the atomic bomb was dropped.
This monument was built with the desire to reconstruct Hiroshima─the city destroyed by the world's first atomic bombing─as a city of peace. It was designed by Kenzo Tange, then a professor at the University of Tokyo. It resembles an ancient arch-shaped house, in part because of the desire to shelter the souls of the victims from the elements. The monument is inscribed with the words, "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil." The stone chest in the center holds the registry of the names of persons who died from the bombing, regardless of nationality. Names are added when persons related to a death make application. As of August 6, 2001, the registry comprises 77 volumes that list a total of 221,893 names.
Digital illustration of a nuclear explosion. The beginning of apocalypse. People standing and watching. AI generated.
Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, speaks at a conference in Berlin on artificial intelligence and weapons of mass destruction hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office on 28 June 2024.
(Left to right): Mr Stefan Kordasch, Head of Division for Chemical and Biological Weapons Disarmament, German Federal Foreign Office, Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, and H.E. Mr Thomas Schieb, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OPCW.
Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, speaks at a conference in Berlin on artificial intelligence and weapons of mass destruction hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office on 28 June 2024.
Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, speaks at a conference in Berlin on artificial intelligence and weapons of mass destruction hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office on 28 June 2024.
Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, speaks at a conference in Berlin on artificial intelligence and weapons of mass destruction hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office on 28 June 2024.
Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW, speaks at a conference in Berlin on artificial intelligence and weapons of mass destruction hosted by the German Federal Foreign Office on 28 June 2024.
Mr Günter Sautter, Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control, and Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW