Canada should acknowledge its role in the A bomb: Hiroshima

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Canada should acknowledge its role in the A bomb: Hiroshima survivor

EXCERPT: "80th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb – a letter sent in 2020 to PM Justin Trudeau, by Setsuko Thurlow. Her letter details Canada's direct role in the Manhattan Project . . . . ."

[ https://nbmediacoop.org/2025/08/06/cana ... -survivor/ ]

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Canada and the Atom Bomb

Anton Wagner - August 6, 2024

[ https://hiroshima.imagearts.torontomu.c ... atom-bomb/ ]

(SEE Curatorial Statement below. . . . . )

EXCERPT: "This exhibition shows how Canadian uranium and Canadian scientists contributed to the development of the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. Through Canadian government intervention and nationalization during World War II, mining ventures and industrial processing at Port Radium in the Northwest Territories, in Port Hope, Ontario, and in Trail, B.C. were integrated into the American Manhattan Project that ushered in the nuclear weapons age threatening human civilization today.

The photographs and poster in this exhibition were obtained courtesy of the Northwest Territories Archives, Library and Archives Canada, the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Yoshito Matsushige, and Robert Del Tredici, a founder of the Atomic Photographers group. Other contributing photographers include Michael Chambers and Katy McCormick. The exhibition was organized for the Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition by Anton Wagner."

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Curatorial Statement here: "Canada and the Atom Bomb: Remembering As an Act of Resistance"

- Anton Wagner - August 6, 2024 . .

[ https://hiroshima.imagearts.torontomu.ca/remembering/ ]

EXCERPT: "I met Setsuko Thurlow in 1995 when I produced Our Hiroshima for Vision TV for the 50th commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1954, she had received death threats while studying at an American college in Virginia after criticizing the United States’ hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands, one thousand times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. But when she settled in Canada with her husband, Jim Thurlow, the following year, she found “a very passive, almost indifferent world here. Maybe Canadians felt they had nothing to do with the nuclear age.”

In Our Hiroshima, Setsuko singled out the Eldorado uranium refinery in Port Hope, Ontario, that enriched all the uranium used by the American Manhattan Project to produce the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. She found Canadians were not informed about their country’s involvement in the development of the atom bomb and failed to recognize that nuclear weapons were a universal, global phenomenon. “We all have to be concerned.” . . . . . "