The estimated "physically present" population of Hiroshima on August 6 1945 was 340,000--350,000. Nagasaki's estimated "physically present" population on August 9 was 90,000--120,000.
The images and audio in this film are public domain and/or offered by creative commons and are available for download and reproduction
at the internet archive, the Prelinger archives, C.E. Price
and from the U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office
Las Vegas, NV and it is is a very good resource.
http://www.nv.doe.gov/
Allen Ginsberg Reads His Poem "Plutonian Ode"
Date: 1989-07-25 00:00:00
Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Available for download on the Internet Archive -
Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
http://www.archive.org/detailAllen_Ginsberg__Anne_Waldman__Michael_Mc_89P162
The US detonated
1,030 nuclear devices between years 1945 and 1992.
Plutonian Ode - combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of Aeons, and Adamantine Truth of ordinary mind inspiration, unhexing nuclear ministry of fear. - a.g.
Allen Ginsberg led a peaceful protest outside a plutonium bomb trigger factory, in which he succeeded with his friends to stop a train carrying nuclear waste.
film by owen plotkin
Plutonian Ode
What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there
a new thing under the Sun?
At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic, detonative,
Scientific theme
First penned unmindful by Doctor Seaborg with poison-
ous hand, named for Death's planet through the
sea beyond Uranus
whose chthonic ore fathers this magma-teared Lord of
Hades, Sire of avenging Furies, billionaire Hell-
King worshipped once
with black sheep throats cut, priests's face averted from
underground mysteries in single temple at Eleusis,
Spring-green Persephone nuptialed to his inevitable
Shade, Demeter mother of asphodel weeping dew,
her daughter stored in salty caverns under white snow,
black hail, grey winter rain or Polar ice, immemor-
able seasons before
Fish flew in Heaven, before a Ram died by the starry
bush, before the Bull stamped sky and earth
or Twins inscribed their memories in clay or Crab'd
flood
washed memory from the skull, or Lion sniffed the
lilac breeze in Eden-- "
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE :
Encouraging Next Generation Nuclear Power and Fusion
www.whitehouse.gov/ omb/budget/fy2005/energy.html
The Administration has taken steps to encourage nuclear power as a clean, reliable, and affordable source of electricity in the coming decades, including streamlining the permitting process for new nuclear power plants, proposing tax changes to help ensure that nuclear plant decommissioning costs are adequately funded, providing a deep geological repository for high-level nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site, and proposing extension of the Price-Anderson nuclear liability Act. The 2005 Budget continues these efforts by providing $31 million for research and development on Generation IV nuclear power technology, a $7 million increase over 2004 funding. Generation IV technology offers the promise of a safe, economic, and proliferation-resistant source of clean nuclear power and hydrogen. The Budget also continues research on advanced, proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel that would allow the Nation to extract the energy potential from spent nuclear fuel and dramatically reduce the quantity and toxicity of remaining waste.
In January 2003, President Bush committed the United States to participate in negotiations on the largest and most technologically sophisticated energy research project in the world—the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)—to harness the promise of fusion energy, the form of energy that powers the sun. The United States and its international partners—the European Union, Japan, Russia, China, and South Korea—plan to reach a consensus decision on the site for ITER early in 2004. If successful, this cost-shared $5 billion research project will help develop fusion's potential as a commercially viable and clean source of energy in the middle of the century. The $38 million provided for this international partnership in the 2005 Budget, a $30 million increase over 2004 funding, will ensure that the United States is prepared to participate fully in this important project.
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