Cmdr .- His father died at what age? Junko Watanabe
.- has 98 years, is alive.
I would promise to you, to convey the reason for the feeling of my brother, who is now dead, and to convey the message that they have all survivors, and to transmit the new generation to the next generation our testimony, I will to continue giving evidence. Thank you (Applause). Cmdr
.- I beg you to excuse me if I make some questions, it is that we care to know everything she is telling, and, of course, if no objection, we will be broadcasting this event through the national television (Applause). We are keen that our public opinion know all this, not just here passing it, transmit it to other countries, to send you news of the meeting. It is of utmost importance to know what happened there, regardless of what has been published, filmed, and all the new things that appear.
I will explain later why I do some of those questions aside.
She had that was in a nearby house, I was in the yard with his brother when the explosion occurs and a cloud of dust. She knows, for others who were aware at the time, how long it took to get that dust on people who were there. Junko Watanabe
.- About 30 minutes, but it did not rain everywhere, but where the wind swept rain. Cmdr
.- Rain. But there was rain and some ashes. Junko Watanabe
.- ash rain really did not exist, but that dust linked with the rain was what came to where they were, it was not separated, it was just something unique, linked with all the dirt and all the things that drew him. Cmdr
.- And there was no ceiling to her, was in a yard? Junko Watanabe
.- We were 18 kilometers from where the bomb fell. Cmdr
.- Eighteen miles! Interpreter
.- Eighteen miles. Cmdr
.- That was going to ask, because there is a bridge, I think, that point as the point, white where the bomb was dropped. Did you go 18 miles?
Your parents were indoors? Junko Watanabe
.- My mom with my younger brother was charged on the outside of the house, and my dad was in Hiroshima, who had worked night and headed for the house, but, well, he was still inside a building. He even saw the plane circled above Hiroshima. Cmdr
.- Before firing. Right.
And the mother was also burned? Junko Watanabe
.- No. Really, where we were 18 kilometers from the place, what we got was all this amount of paper burning, that wave, the wind that came to us, but burned as such, it does not we had.
Had we been a little closer, that is, near the epicenter, I do not think we were doing the story today. Cmdr
.- Right.
I wanted to tell you that we recently had a visit from a very prestigious researcher, a professor emeritus at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and is the author of the theory of nuclear winter. This, in our view, is very important, because it relates to the current dangers facing humanity, and there are many things that are unknown.
This teacher visited our country and at a meeting of scientists did an excellent exposition of his theory, a theory with much prestige, it seems to me indisputable, and is related to the consequences of nuclear war. It does not, itself, the destruction it causes, which would be huge, but analyzes the danger it would mean for humanity a regional nuclear war, even global war.
Part of actual fact, very different from that moment that launches the first nuclear bomb. Taking into account the situation at this moment, that there are 25 000 nuclear weapons in the world. I imagine that many of you know that data. The scientist says 100 nuclear explosions would be sufficient and produce what he called nuclear winter.
bases his theory in a series of investigations that have made American scientists and Soviet scientists before the demise of the USSR, the effects would produce a number of nuclear weapons in a war broke out. They calculated that about 100 nuclear explosions would be enough to obliterate human life on the planet, so a war, for example, between India and Pakistan, with the number of weapons held by each one of them would be enough to stop our species.
I think that although maybe you have enough news, we can provide them with a copy of the conference is Alan Robock, name of the professor who taught here recently, was in this month ", which contains valuable data, which will serve you for the disclosure of the consequences, not only for the damage they cause, of course, Current weapons are far more powerful, more accurate, much faster. The power of existing weapons is equivalent to four hundred forty thousand times the power of either of the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, tested the two, one from another from uranium and plutonium. And all these technologies are mastered and used guns with total precision.
arrangements have been made between great powers practically worthless because it does not translate into real arms reduction.
To me it strikes me that if the organization you make contact with him, which is a very generous man, he could offer a conference on this issue.
I asked about the mist, as he explains and demonstrates that as a result of nuclear explosions, everything burns, wood, all that comes from oil, and many other things, as he explained, are burned and mixed with land, produce high concentrations of dust. I have studied all: what would happen if they were two or if they were 10, if they were 100, and has a limit. That dust cloud spread across the world in a period of time, I think no more than three weeks, and the temperature would drop below freezing. Well, I mean, for example, one night in months, not allowed to cross the sunlight. Disappears food production and the consequences are horrible, over 6 000 million people go without food, in addition to the cold.
I got a question when he finished one-hour exposure, with maps, charts, study all the effects of volcanic eruptions, have studied how to extend the dust each time one occurs. Even a recent in Iceland in Europe, created serious problems. They also studied the great fires that have occurred naturally or as a result of war or accident. I ask: "How many people in the world know that information you are providing?" Says: "Almost no one." I say, "And in his own country, how many people know him?" He said, "Very few . 'I say: "How can this phenomenon be explained?" I added, too: "Maybe you have to study it, look for specialists in psychology and other fields to find an explanation for this phenomenon," and he I said then: "I have an answer: this is called denial." He reasoned that when horrible things could happen, people believe them rejected the idea of \u200b\u200bpotential. A
explanation that he gives you could add another, which is connected to the media, the monopoly of the media. Things that happen in the world, although there are modern means, radio, television, films are handled in the way that news is happening, but not explained, and indeed many of the most important are the world does not know, or with news and not analyzed. There are books on that very important, the monopoly of the media, the truth is kidnapped is not known. Two phenomena.
I explained that we were not pessimistic about the possibility of creating an awareness. I tell them, you can create a conscience or not. Of course, if the masses can not read and write can not even be attempted, if the company has a level of knowledge as does Japanese society, then with their own means of dissemination, not only writing, but with words with images, with music, with many events, you can create an awareness today.
I say that this was the case in Cuba. If people could not read and write ... What can a person who can not read or write? If they reach sixth grade or not, if they graduate from high school or not, if hundreds of thousands made college, if they have good teachers, there are different phenomena. The Revolution has not been defended by force, has defended the knowledge, with awareness. How could a small country like Cuba, withstand 50 years of blockade and harassment? They thought they could take the country, or they could cheat, but could not. It was, in my view, a demonstration that can form a conscience, because if we give up the idea that consciousness can be created, then what would be of your work? Because you are traveling the world and explaining, prompting people who knew about it, and telling facts that are heartbreaking, really. Let me explain still better what you are doing because they're feeling, and are carrying people who experienced it, and have the images, have many things.
I was in Hiroshima. I visited the museum. Everything was explained to me there: what resisted, which did not resist, and a terrible images of human tragedy was the picture of children not yet born, pregnant mothers to missing a month, two months, three months, these images there have been printed and are of great impact, and I think there is material to do so. I would say that today there is much more awareness, but it takes a lot more. And the fact is that today all of humanity is threatened by something as horrible as what you have told, and even more horrible still, because we've heard from people who were in the area of \u200b\u200bthe first pump pain by people who died, people were burned, who were injured or were irradiated and have lived more than 50 years. Actually 65 years ago that those explosions occurred, and today thousands of them more powerful and accurate threaten humanity.
scientist theory says that the more a country possessing nuclear weapons, the less chance of peace and security will be. He is to be settled in favor of all nuclear weapons. I go a little further. I think if you love liquidated nuclear and non-conventional weapons are settled, is almost equal.
The destructive power of such weapons is now enormous. A bomb with bits of tungsten, a heavy warhead cover without the use of nuclear energy gains momentum in the space of 25 000 kilometers per hour, more than 20 times the speed of sound, then drops back to no less than 20 000 kilometers. A whole area of \u200b\u200bwhat is underneath is absolutely destroyed. It is not command post, there is no government, nothing remains of the stated objective. This has been published, he explained. The last world war cost 50 million lives, victims of conventional weapons, not including victims and human damage of the two nuclear bombs, which caused more than 150 000 deaths and a higher number of people who suffered burns, radiation and many other damage. The destruction, hunger, disease, affecting much of the world in that war. If there is another world war, would be the last, there can be no other.
Einstein himself said it, I would not know what it would be another world war in the atomic age; but the following would be with bows and arrows.
I had brought a letter to me Robock, the scientist said in answer to a question he did when he was already at the airport back home. In his lecture had passed on some facts about the planet Mars, I contacted by phone and asked where I could get more data on that planet. He explained that Mars had an atmosphere, which given its thin I know. I promised to send information.
Two or three days later was sent.
"Mars has an atmosphere much thinner than Earth's, with only 7% of air ... is equal to the air density of the Earth to 21 kilometers. "
" The Martian atmosphere, he adds, is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. "
Whatreport relates to what we are talking about: the effects of nuclear explosions. The impact on climate. What has been said of the environment? What has been said about climate change? Is it that there is this serious problem? Have not been investigated? Is there a prestigious film made with the cooperation of the most eminent scientists on climate change, its effects on rains, the economy and the lives of human beings? This is studied as a second problem in climate change. Ie, do not expect a nuclear war for life on the planet disappears. Just as I'm telling you, for life on the planet disappears.
The economy and life of nations today are based on the consumption of nonrenewable raw materials, among others, the most important oil, a commodity that is consumed at a rate of almost 100 million barrels a day.
Take into account that oil took hundreds of millions of years to form from living matter.
About 400 million years was what was required for the formation of oil, gas and coal. What is spending time oil man that nature accumulated during 400 million years? In just 130 years, humans have already spent more than half of that fuel, whose consumption also has tremendous effects on the environment. Carbon dioxide, so abundant in the atmosphere of Mars, is precisely what makes the oil consumption. Are factors that humanity should know, confront and resolve. Is the price of its existence.
The human population can not grow indefinitely, because the planet we live where we anchored and bounds. Is calculated if I remember correctly, that by the year 2050 the population will reach more than 9 000 billion people. Only 200 years ago barely one billion. The consequences this has in relation to water, food, energy and raw materials are truly extraordinary.
Japan is a country of very limited area for its population, and today about 130 million inhabitants, I have understood, is claimed to be the nation's largest carrier lifetime and a high culture, and its population will stabilize on more than 100 million people. Then it is possible to achieve population stability.
A neighbor of you, China, applies a rigorous policy of population, if not adopted that policy, China now have about 3 000 million. Between China and India own almost half of the inhabitants of the planet.
are realities. People should have the courage to face the realities, if known, as you are doing in relation to the terrible consequences of nuclear explosions. Those born should have preconditions, enjoy a natural life as fully as possible. It is not what is happening. Die each year about 8 or 10 million as a result of hunger and lack of medical care. About talk about it? Some scientists and some politicians. Such news just talked about, to the large multinationals are not interested in the subject.
I know you, in this same trip, we were asked us to send a doctor with international experience, not someone who was thinking so. In those same Cuban doctors, thousands of them in many countries. You certainly would be astonished if they knew what, for example, our small country can do for other people. It is not unrealistic that hold tasks. Matsumi
.- Commander Matsumura, look, what I wanted to comment on our part, you mentioned the internationalist ...
Cmdr .- What is here? Matsumi
Matsumura .- Yes
Cmdr .- Where is it? You can raise your hand.
Let me see if I see you better.
told me you were in Haiti, right? Matsumi
Matsumura .- Mr. Dr. Livan Torero, he worked hard for the people of Haiti after the earthquake and we have invited the ship of peace to give us his experience there in Haiti. And we have next to José Ramón, salsa dancer, which for us is very important know their culture, I think it is a traditional dance and we have learned much about the sauce.
really, thank you for giving us this invitation. Thank you, Commander (Applause). Cmdr
.- I congratulate and thank you very much. I mentioned it because I know the work they are doing and would cite the case of Haiti as a test of what can conscience.
In Bolivia itself is almost 2 000 doctors, are in many places. In Ecuador, which has 15 million people, are helping to investigate and pay attention to all those who for genetic problems or other reasons are invalid, born blind or were born unable to hear. Unable to hear a child becomes mute if you do not know the sounds can not be issued. Many problems can be solved with a small team, to give you an instrument could talk and communicate.
If you are born blind and deaf is a more complicated situation. What will the life of a blind and deaf, who has never heard and never saw?
know the results of cochlear implants and how they learn to listen, speak, listen to music and see the world, their lives change.
I think society should make known to parents, trying to warn the risks and that in certain cases, should not have descendants. Consider that every human being is born to come into the world with all its potential. If for some reason are born with hereditary non-critical failures, we must do everything possible to enrich the lives of these people. Those who can not really be fed, those who can not be educated, those who can not live a normal life, a life worth living, should not be conceived simply.
understand that not everyone can think exactly alike, there are religious influences, I respect all that, but frankly I am expressing my opinion and why. For the human race at present, it is actually the famous problem or may not be, if you survive or not this species, which really quite has caused damage to other living things. Since the human species emerged upset him all the intelligence so far has been a tragedy for nature, and nuclear weapons could ever create a problem as serious as that famous asteroid that fell, they say, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, for tens of millions of years and was a long winter. No other species
did that, kept the balance with nature over billions of years, about 4 thousand. The man is new. It came less than 200 000 years, this kind of thinking-thinking what I would say is to show, if not prove it is capable of survive. Excuse me it is a bit hard with our nonsense. The only thing proven so far is that there is no evidence whatsoever that has been preceded by another.
Anyway, all these problems are combined, and I seem to be conspiring to win the battle that must be the goal of human beings. So maybe many wonderful things could be created. How many people
well prepared scientifically, how eminent is the world? 80% of U.S. engineers are dedicated to the military sphere, to create the media and science to destroy and kill, under a false system that led to that destination.
Our aspiration is that people reach high intellectual levels. Incidentally, when I came over here, I took a newsletter and I find one, which stated that Cuba ranked first worldwide in the percentage of students enrolled in higher education study. Venezuela was ranked fifth, second, third and fourth was occupied by the Republic of Korea, Finland and Greece, the United States was behind us in the sixth.
I quoted the doctor, because these men and women-mostly women-are working in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, in many Third World countries. But why Why? I wonder: are, for example, 15 days vacation and are desperate to return to their jobs, they miss the patients have to hear people how to express themselves. It is a product of consciousness, that was not purchased anywhere, it is not for money.
The task undertaken by colleagues in Haiti is a product of consciousness. So I dare to speak of consciousness, because I've seen that awareness made possible the revolution, made possible the resistance, regardless of the criticisms that we made or the mistakes we make, because no human work is perfect. Not the least afraid to talk about mistakes, because what Forgiveness is not what is done consciously at the expense of others.
No human work perfect, but we believe in it, and if we did not believe it would not be doing what we are doing, nor what you are doing so nobly.
regret that I have taken too long.
continues tomorrow.
Fidel Castro Ruz September 25, 2010
12 and 2:00 p.m.
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