Update:Atomic Flame memorializes the 60th Anniversary

[suziwong]

Press Release Source: Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal's How to Dismantle a Nuclear Bomb; Hosts 'Full Circle' to Return 'Atomic Flame' From Hiroshima to Test Site
Friday July 15, 3:09 pm ET


SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Actor and life-long musician STEVEN SEAGAL will lead the way as the first individual to personally sponsor the disarming and disposal of a "high risk" Russian nuclear missile with a donation of $100,000.

SEAGAL will mark the event by hosting the "Full Circle" ceremony Saturday, July 16th in San Francisco where the "Atomic Flame" will arrive from Japan aboard the Nippon Maru. The "Flame" was kindled from the burning embers of Hiroshima 60 years ago, after the world's first atomic bomb was dropped.

Protected by Zen Monks, the original flame still burns today and has become a symbol of hope for peace and a reminder of the horrors of nuclear weapons. Joined by peace groups from around world, the monks will walk 1600 miles from San Francisco to Trinity Test Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Once returned to its origin, the flame will be extinguished, closing a 60-year circle of fear.

A long time resident of Japan, SEAGAL says, "I have been blessed to know many survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and their spirit for living drives my determination to make this world a safer place." He continues, "30,000 nuclear warheads still exist today with 100,000 times more destructive power than Hiroshima. It's our responsibility as global citizens to rid the world of this imminent threat."

Dr. Bruce Blair of the multi-national Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC echoes this threat in today's precarious world: "In the age of cyber terrorism, high security hacking makes the reality of an unintended nuclear exchange a stone-cold possibility."

Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Russian Federation Council International Affairs Committee supported the idea of a global fund to help accelerate the destruction of nuclear weapons. "It gives the Russian government an opportunity to show their leadership and commitment to disarmament issues."

The fund is to be administered by The Nuclear Weapons Abolition Alliance, and it is sending an official delegation to Russia next month to begin scheduling of destruction of its first weapon. (www.GNDFund.org.)

SEAGAL will debut his album SONGS FROM THE CRYSTAL CAVE early 2006 in the U.S. The album, with self-penned songs as "Don't You Cry," "War," "Better Man" and "My God," was already released in France and will be available in Asia in September.




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[Amos Stevens]

Oh okkkkkkkk,some reason I'm thinking of the movie "Ticker"

Thanks Suziwong for the article

 

[Serena]

Thanks so much for the update and the confirmation, Suzi. I'm not sure this will be on TV at all tomorrow. Maybe a quick blurb on the news. But I'm sure it will all be incorporated into the two-hour video, which won't be available until sometime after the completion of the walk the end of next month. Let us know as soon as you find out, please.

 

[Trinity]

Mr.Seagal,for whatever it's worth Thank-you.

 

[Littledragon]

Thanks!

Press Release Source: Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal's How to Dismantle a Nuclear Bomb; Hosts 'Full Circle' to Return 'Atomic Flame' From Hiroshima to Test Site
Friday July 15, 3:09 pm ET


SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Actor and life-long musician STEVEN SEAGAL will lead the way as the first individual to personally sponsor the disarming and disposal of a "high risk" Russian nuclear missile with a donation of $100,000.

SEAGAL will mark the event by hosting the "Full Circle" ceremony Saturday, July 16th in San Francisco where the "Atomic Flame" will arrive from Japan aboard the Nippon Maru. The "Flame" was kindled from the burning embers of Hiroshima 60 years ago, after the world's first atomic bomb was dropped.

Protected by Zen Monks, the original flame still burns today and has become a symbol of hope for peace and a reminder of the horrors of nuclear weapons. Joined by peace groups from around world, the monks will walk 1600 miles from San Francisco to Trinity Test Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Once returned to its origin, the flame will be extinguished, closing a 60-year circle of fear.

A long time resident of Japan, SEAGAL says, "I have been blessed to know many survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and their spirit for living drives my determination to make this world a safer place." He continues, "30,000 nuclear warheads still exist today with 100,000 times more destructive power than Hiroshima. It's our responsibility as global citizens to rid the world of this imminent threat."

Dr. Bruce Blair of the multi-national Center for Defense Information in Washington, DC echoes this threat in today's precarious world: "In the age of cyber terrorism, high security hacking makes the reality of an unintended nuclear exchange a stone-cold possibility."

Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Russian Federation Council International Affairs Committee supported the idea of a global fund to help accelerate the destruction of nuclear weapons. "It gives the Russian government an opportunity to show their leadership and commitment to disarmament issues."

The fund is to be administered by The Nuclear Weapons Abolition Alliance, and it is sending an official delegation to Russia next month to begin scheduling of destruction of its first weapon. (www.GNDFund.org.)

SEAGAL will debut his album SONGS FROM THE CRYSTAL CAVE early 2006 in the U.S. The album, with self-penned songs as "Don't You Cry," "War," "Better Man" and "My God," was already released in France and will be available in Asia in September.




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Thanks for posting Suzi!!!

 

[Serena]

A little paragraph in the San Francisco Bay View from July 13, 2005.
I wonder if they mean Richard Gere?

Zen monks from Japan will be carrying the atomic flame (from the Hiroshima memorial) to the Trinity test site in New Mexico. There will be a beginning ceremony near Pier 35 and Pier 39. Public speakers, city officials and musical performances can be seen there. The walk will go from Pier 39 to SBC Ball Park along the waterfront. The monks will continue to Palo Alto and then New Mexico. The walk is being filmed with the backing of Steven Segal and Richard Gear & will be shown throughout the world as part of a 2-hour global TV special. Please support this walk for peace. 10am gathering. 12pm walk begins. Pier 35 & 39, SF.

 

[suziwong]

Steven Seagal attended Atomic Flame ceremony.

Here is Photos !!!

1- Thomas Tanemori, a survivor (hibakusha) of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He was 8 years old and was 0.7 mile from the bomb when it exploded. His four brothers and sisters and his parents were killed. He is now a spokesperson for nuclear disarmament. He is being greeted by actor Steven Seagal

2- Steven Seagal was a speaker at the ceremony.



Antinuclear rally marks 60th anniversary of world's 1st nuke test
(Kyodo) _ Antinuclear activists, including monks, a Japanese lawmaker and American film star, gathered in San Francisco for the start of a one-month rally for the abolition of nuclear weapons Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear test in the United States.
The activists, who are mainly from Japan and the United States, will march 2,500 kilometers in three groups relaying the Hiroshima Peace Flame, a flame preserved from the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where the United States conducted the first nuclear test July 16, 1945.

A ceremony to mark the start of the peace march was held in San Francisco, attended by some 100 people including Japanese monks, atomic-bomb survivors living in the United States and U.S. citizens.

A man who was 8 when Hiroshima was attacked recalled how the atomic bomb killed his parents and brothers. It later prompted him to attempt suicide at the age of 16.

"I came to the United States for revenge," the man said. "But now I'm working as a messenger for peace."

Also taking part in the march are Shokichi Kina, a House of Councillors member from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, who hails from Okinawa, the site of a bitter battle between the U.S. and Japanese forces in the closing days of World War II, and American film actor Steven Seagal.

Kina, a musician-turned politician, sang his hit song calling for world peace, while Seagal said that human beings have no business possessing nuclear weapons given the threat such weapons pose.

The rally was organized by a peace group in the United States and realized with help from Buddhist groups in the two countries.

On Aug. 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Some 100,000 people are thought to have died that day, and another 100,000 subsequently from the injuries they sustained and the effects of radiation.

Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, leading Japan to announce its unconditional surrender on Aug. 15 that year.
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Just two photo.. I guess Media was not interested in Steven Seagal too much !!!

For your information

suzi

 

[suziwong]

SAN FRANCISCO
Monks, peace activists use walk to spotlight the horrors of war
Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, July 17, 2005

Sixty years ago this weekend, the nuclear age began.

At a top secret test site near Alamogordo, N.M., scientists successfully exploded an atomic weapon for the first time -- paving the way for a pair of nuclear bombs to be dropped on Japan a month later to end World War II.

On Saturday, a small band of Zen monks and peace activists began a 1,600- mile walk from San Francisco to the Trinity Test Site in New Mexico to remind the world of the horrors of nuclear war and to help ensure the weapons are never used again.

Some of the monks traveled from Japan aboard the Nippon Maru ship, carrying a lantern that was lit from a famous peace flame in Japan. The flame, in turn, was originally kindled from the embers of Hiroshima, after it was hit by a nuclear bomb in August 1945.

Kerrie Ann Garlick, 34, a peace activist from Melbourne, Australia, said she was one of about two dozen people who would make the entire journey. But she said hundreds more volunteers would walk short sections of the route. "We will never forget'' Hiroshima, she said. "That's why we walk."

The 25-day walk also comes at a time when many peace activists have been more focused on conventional violence and warfare, especially in the Middle East. With the end of the Cold War, most Americans have also been more concerned about the possibility of terrorism than a nuclear war.

But at a rally Saturday near Pier 39, some activists tried to tilt the spotlight back toward the potential for nuclear war.

"The hour is late. The danger is great," said Bruce Blair, a nuclear specialist with the Center for Defense Information, a nonprofit Washington, D. C., research organization. Blair served as a launch officer for the Minuteman intercontinental nuclear missile program in the 1970s.

Action movie star Steven Seagal also spoke briefly. He recently pledged $100,000 to pay for disarming a nuclear missile in Russia and said everyone must do what they can to fight nuclear weapons.

"We the people have to take responsibility for this, because if any of this goes awry, we will all suffer," Seagal said.

Takashi Tanemori, 67, of Lafayette gave an emotional account of how he was personally affected by the explosion when he was a boy in Hiroshima.

Tanemori said he had lost his parents, two of his grandparents and two of his sisters in the blast. Tanemori said the left side of his body was so badly seared from the blast that aid workers built a cremation box for him, figuring he wouldn't survive either.

Though Tanemori moved to the United States when he was 18 -- initially picking grapes in the Central Valley -- he said it had taken decades longer to truly forgive his adopted home for the bombing. He said his father finally appeared to him in a dream, warning him that revenge begets revenge.

This isn't the first time peace activists have carried the atomic flame from Japan to New Mexico.

Three years ago, the Hiroshima Flame Interfaith Pilgrimage group carried the flame to Los Alamos, where scientists developed the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

On Saturday, the monks were scheduled to walk to SBC Park and then on to Palo Alto.

Stanford Memorial Church will host a service for the monks at 8 a.m. this morning before they continue on to San Jose, where a rally is a slated to be held in Japan Town at 7 p.m.

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[Lollipop]

Thanks for information and other photo's!! It is great how you all work together to get this info out!! It is appreciated!!

 

[KATHYPURDOM]

Thank you Suzi for that article and those pictures. You alway come though for us. Keep us posted for that video. I would love to see it.
Amos I thought about Ticker to when I was reading the article.

 

[Littledragon]

Steven Seagal attended Atomic Flame ceremony.

Here is Photos !!!

1- Thomas Tanemori, a survivor (hibakusha) of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He was 8 years old and was 0.7 mile from the bomb when it exploded. His four brothers and sisters and his parents were killed. He is now a spokesperson for nuclear disarmament. He is being greeted by actor Steven Seagal

2- Steven Seagal was a speaker at the ceremony.



Antinuclear rally marks 60th anniversary of world's 1st nuke test
(Kyodo) _ Antinuclear activists, including monks, a Japanese lawmaker and American film star, gathered in San Francisco for the start of a one-month rally for the abolition of nuclear weapons Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear test in the United States.
The activists, who are mainly from Japan and the United States, will march 2,500 kilometers in three groups relaying the Hiroshima Peace Flame, a flame preserved from the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where the United States conducted the first nuclear test July 16, 1945.

A ceremony to mark the start of the peace march was held in San Francisco, attended by some 100 people including Japanese monks, atomic-bomb survivors living in the United States and U.S. citizens.

A man who was 8 when Hiroshima was attacked recalled how the atomic bomb killed his parents and brothers. It later prompted him to attempt suicide at the age of 16.

"I came to the United States for revenge," the man said. "But now I'm working as a messenger for peace."

Also taking part in the march are Shokichi Kina, a House of Councillors member from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, who hails from Okinawa, the site of a bitter battle between the U.S. and Japanese forces in the closing days of World War II, and American film actor Steven Seagal.

Kina, a musician-turned politician, sang his hit song calling for world peace, while Seagal said that human beings have no business possessing nuclear weapons given the threat such weapons pose.

The rally was organized by a peace group in the United States and realized with help from Buddhist groups in the two countries.

On Aug. 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Some 100,000 people are thought to have died that day, and another 100,000 subsequently from the injuries they sustained and the effects of radiation.

Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, leading Japan to announce its unconditional surrender on Aug. 15 that year.
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Just two photo.. I guess Media was not interested in Steven Seagal too much !!!

For your information

suzi

Thanks so much for all the articles and new pictures Suzi!!!

 

[Kcs]

Well, media was interested. The event was in the evening news of Hungarian national TV, TV2.

 

[suziwong]

Well, media was interested. The event was in the evening news of Hungarian national TV, TV2.

I am talking about generally !!! Yesterday I watched BBC-int, CNN-int, RTL, France TV,5.. I followed them until late hours but they didn't mention..

suzi

 

[Serena]

I'm glad to see this got off as scheduled! Thanks for the pictures and articles, Suzi.
I'm assuming that's a REAL picture of Steven and not a fake one.

 

[ORANGATUANG]

Well the media are the ones losing out are'nt they Suzi..Steven Seagal will always shine...iam sure that the picture is the real McCoy Serena..

 

[suziwong]

A new photo from Atomic walk...

Steven was a guest speaker you know...


suzi

 

[Littledragon]

Great photo!

A new photo from Atomic walk...

Steven was a guest speaker you know...


suzi

Fantastic photo Suzi! Thank you so so much!! Seagal looks good, he really does! Thank you!!

 

[suziwong]

Reminder & Update: Atomic Walk !!


Desert Dispatch
Saturday, July 23, 2005

Monks carry message of disarmament
By KELLY DONOVAN/Staff Writer


BARSTOW -- A group of Buddhist monks and their supporters drew stares from local residents Friday as their procession entered town.

The group of about a half-dozen people is in the process of walking from San Francisco to Alamogordo, N.M., promoting an end to the use of nuclear weapons as they pass through communities along the way.

Their 1,600-mile journey, sponsored by the Global Nuclear Disarmament Fund, will end when they reach Alamogordo's Trinity Test Site, where the first atomic bomb detonation took place.

They carry with them the "atomic flame" that originated when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Matt Taylor, co-executive director of the Global Nuclear Disarmament Fund, said.

The flame is actually three separate flames in a special lantern, representing the atomic test at Trinity, the bomb on Hiroshima and the bomb on Nagasaki.

"When it gets back to Trinity, those three flames will become one, and that's what will be extinguished," Taylor said.

Putting out the single flame will be the group's call for an end to nuclear weapons.

Taylor told a small group assembled in front of City Hall Friday that the walkers hope that theirs will be the only atomic flame Barstow will ever see.

The monks and their supporters, who entered the city on West Main Street, were joined briefly by the mayor and two city officials on their way to City Hall.

Mayor Lawrence Dale walked up Second Avenue with the group, carrying the lantern, along with the city's spokesman, John Rader, and community development director, Scott Priester.

After reaching City Hall, the group took a break, and Priester and Dale presented the monks with City of Barstow memorabilia -- lapel pins and stickers. Later Friday, Barstow Community Hospital paid for the walkers to have lunch at Vick's.

Taylor said the walkers would be staying at a hotel in Barstow Friday night and leaving early this morning.

The walk to New Mexico will be featured in an upcoming two-hour television documentary narrated by Steven Seagal and directed by Taylor. For information about the walk and the documentary.

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For Your Information

suzi

 

[Littledragon]

Desert Dispatch
Saturday, July 23, 2005

Monks carry message of disarmament
By KELLY DONOVAN/Staff Writer


BARSTOW -- A group of Buddhist monks and their supporters drew stares from local residents Friday as their procession entered town.

The group of about a half-dozen people is in the process of walking from San Francisco to Alamogordo, N.M., promoting an end to the use of nuclear weapons as they pass through communities along the way.

Their 1,600-mile journey, sponsored by the Global Nuclear Disarmament Fund, will end when they reach Alamogordo's Trinity Test Site, where the first atomic bomb detonation took place.

They carry with them the "atomic flame" that originated when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Matt Taylor, co-executive director of the Global Nuclear Disarmament Fund, said.

The flame is actually three separate flames in a special lantern, representing the atomic test at Trinity, the bomb on Hiroshima and the bomb on Nagasaki.

"When it gets back to Trinity, those three flames will become one, and that's what will be extinguished," Taylor said.

Putting out the single flame will be the group's call for an end to nuclear weapons.

Taylor told a small group assembled in front of City Hall Friday that the walkers hope that theirs will be the only atomic flame Barstow will ever see.

The monks and their supporters, who entered the city on West Main Street, were joined briefly by the mayor and two city officials on their way to City Hall.

Mayor Lawrence Dale walked up Second Avenue with the group, carrying the lantern, along with the city's spokesman, John Rader, and community development director, Scott Priester.

After reaching City Hall, the group took a break, and Priester and Dale presented the monks with City of Barstow memorabilia -- lapel pins and stickers. Later Friday, Barstow Community Hospital paid for the walkers to have lunch at Vick's.

Taylor said the walkers would be staying at a hotel in Barstow Friday night and leaving early this morning.

The walk to New Mexico will be featured in an upcoming two-hour television documentary narrated by Steven Seagal and directed by Taylor. For information about the walk and the documentary.

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For Your Information

suzi

Thanks for the news Suzi!! Do you know what channel or program it will be aired on??

 

[ORANGATUANG]

Bloody caps...Thanks Suzi for the extra news..