On Saturday, August 9th, anti-nuclear protesters gathered at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. They were joined by Reverend Nobuaki Hanaoka, who survived that devastating attack and called for the “complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.”

Peace, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout Northern California gathered at the northwest corner of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to protest the continuing research by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new generation of nuclear weapons. At 11:02am antinuclear protesters observed a moment of silence for the tens of thousands of civilians who were instantly killed when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan.

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Past Indybay Coverage Of LLNL Protests: 2007: Hiroshima Memorial | 2007 Hunger Strike Against Lab | 2006: 9 DeNuke Activists Arrested at UCLA | 2005: A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management | 2005: Protests Demand Abolition of Nuclear Weapons | 2004: Books Not Bombs Rally and March to Nuclear Weapons Lab | 2003: Hands Around the Lab | 2003: Hundreds rally against nuclear research | 2002: Another Rogue State Rejects Weapons Inspections | 2002: Demonstrators Denounce State Terrorism in the Form of Nuclear Weapons | 2001: In Memory of Hiroshima | 2001: Hiroshima Flame Walk To Visit Bay Area