AtomicBombMuseum.org Initiates Educational Web Site for the 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bombings.ATLANTA -- AtomicBombMuseum.org Provides a New Online Educational Resource for Those with an Interest in the Historical Record of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki AtomicBombMuseum.org today announced the availability of its educational web site. The announcement comes on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The AtomicBombMuseum.org web site is dedicated to provide information to students, educators and concerned citizens at home and around the world about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. , Japan. The mission of AtomicBombMuseum.org is to be an easily accessible tool for secondary and higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. students and teachers, providing a meaningful source of historical and current information about atomic and nuclear weapons to young people around the globe. The organization plans to continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. expand the depth and breadth of the web site, while maintaining its stated goal of providing a balanced, easy-to-understand approach to help students navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. this complex and politically charged field of study. "It is our hope that AtomicBombMuseum.org will serve as a springboard for people who want to personally discover the lessons of those unique historical events that took place in August of 1945," said David Swain, Editor-in-Chief of the web site, and translator of the first full accounting of the 1945 atomic bombings, "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the physical, medical, and social effects of the atomic bombings" (Basic Books, Inc., 1981), as well as a shorter popular account, "The Impact of the A-bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (Iwanami Shoten, 1985). About AtomicBombMuseum.org AtomicBombMuseum.org is a project of Global Peacemakers This article is about the pacifist organization. For other meanings, see Peacemaker (disambiguation). Peacemakers was an American pacifist organization. Association, a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the culture of peace, and represents a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. of many advisors and contributors in the U.S. and Japan. Steven Leeper is Executive Director of Global Peacemakers Association and Assistant to the President of the Mayors for Peace, a U.N. registered non-governmental organization “NGO” redirects here. For other uses, see NGO (disambiguation). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. with members in over 1,000 cities representing 112 countries and regions worldwide. |
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