Monday, August 6th, 2012

THE HISTORY OF August 6th, I'm ___________________.

AND I'm ___________. Today in 1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Hiroshima, home to almost four hundred thousand people. Delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, the bomb explodes in the air and destroys more than two-thirds of the city's buildings.

About half the population is buried in ruins, burned to death by the explosion's heat, or consumed by fire. Thousands of survivors will develop radiation sickness and, in one month, hundreds more will die when makeshift hospitals and other weakened buildings crumble under a typhoon.

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Tonight, 350 Madison Presents: Candidates Forum on Energy and Climate Change, featuring Mark Pocan and Kelda Roys. Each candidate will have 5 to 10 minutes to outline his or her position on climate change, followed by a 15 to 30 minute Q&A session with the audience. This will be held tonight from 7 to 8pm at Arboretum Cohousing, 1137 Erin Street in Madison. The event is free and open to the public. For more info, contact Susan at 608-444-8857

Tonight at 6:30pm is the annual Lanterns for Peace - to remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for an end to nuclear weapons and affirm peace in our time. Gather at the Tenney Park Shelter for this family-friendly event of crafts, food & sing-along between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. Then make and float illuminated lanterns with peace messages on the Tenney Park lagoon at dusk. Sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wisconsin. This is at the Tenney Park Shelter, 1414 East Johnson. More info at 232-9945.

Tomorrow afternoon, the UW Lectures Committee with the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia present "Uyghur [oi-ger] Neighborhoods and Nationalisms in Kazakhstan".  Lecturer Sean Roberts is Associate Professor and Director of the International Development Studies Program at George Washington University.  This is Tuesday, August 7 at 4pm at in 2270 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue.  This is free and open to the public. Contact Jennifer at 262-3379 for more information.