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The bomb in our back yard
August 31, 2009
“On Sunday, the 15th of July, about noon, we were at Hunters Point and they put on us what we now know was the atomic bomb.” – Capt. Charles B. McVay III, U.S. Navy commanding officer, USS Indianapolis (from the Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center)
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Tags: Ahimsa Porter Sumchai • atomic bombs • breast cancer • Capt. Lewis L. Haynes • Capt. McVay • Captain James Nolan • Compensation and Liability Act • Gun Mole Pier • Hiroshima • Japanese Emperor Hirohito • Lockheed Missiles and Space Division • low level radiation • M.D. • Major Robert Furman • Martin Luther King Jr. • Nagasaki • Naval Historical Center • North Korea • nuclear Iran • nuclear weapons • Operation Skycatch • Parcel D • President Barack Obama • Radiation impacted sites • skin cancer • Superfund • Tadatoshi Akiba • the 2010 dirty transfer of radiation impacted buildings • the Comprehensive Environmental Response • the Historical Radiological Assessment • the Hunters Point Shipyard • The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) • the mayor of Hiroshima • the Naval Historical Center • The Navy • The Navy Radiological Affairs Support Office • the Operational Archives Branch • the Radiological Subcommittee • the U.S. Navy • the USS Indianapolis • Truman • Winston Churchill • World War II • “Little Boy”
Filed Under: SF Bay Area
Tags: Ahimsa Porter Sumchai • atomic bombs • breast cancer • Capt. Lewis L. Haynes • Capt. McVay • Captain James Nolan • Compensation and Liability Act • Gun Mole Pier • Hiroshima • Japanese Emperor Hirohito • Lockheed Missiles and Space Division • low level radiation • M.D. • Major Robert Furman • Martin Luther King Jr. • Nagasaki • Naval Historical Center • North Korea • nuclear Iran • nuclear weapons • Operation Skycatch • Parcel D • President Barack Obama • Radiation impacted sites • skin cancer • Superfund • Tadatoshi Akiba • the 2010 dirty transfer of radiation impacted buildings • the Comprehensive Environmental Response • the Historical Radiological Assessment • the Hunters Point Shipyard • The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) • the mayor of Hiroshima • the Naval Historical Center • The Navy • The Navy Radiological Affairs Support Office • the Operational Archives Branch • the Radiological Subcommittee • the U.S. Navy • the USS Indianapolis • Truman • Winston Churchill • World War II • “Little Boy”
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