The Signal | Peace Activism from Bucks County to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Barbara Simmons

Barbara Simmons served as executive director for 30 years of The Peace Center, an educational peace and justice non-profit organization in Bucks County. She was founding director of PeaceTalks radio producing radio documentaries from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Rwanda, South Africa, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Canada and the United States, which aired on NPR, PRI and many other stations. Currently, Barbara is involved as an Ambassador to L.O.V.E. Is The Answer, the executive board of the NAACP, Chair of Communications for Newtown Dems, board member of Divorce Recovery Center, serves on DEI Committee of Bucks County Women's Advocacy Coalition and the Mercer Museum Advisory Committee, and is on the Board of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace.

Today I talk to Barbara about why she memorializes the barbaric bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and her life as a long-time peace activist.

Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Peace

Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World , by Lesley M.M. Blume
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action, by John Dear
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People, by Jonathan Schell

ARTICLES

A Life Committed to Peace, with Barbara Simmons, by Cyril Mychalejko
Why I Commemorate The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki, by Barbara Simmons
Bucks County must band together to ‘Ban the Bomb, by Cyril Mychalejko
Poem: Stained Glass, by Steve Nolan
Creating A Nuclear Weapon Free World, with Ira Helfand , by Cyril Mychalejko
Hiroshima’s Lessons of Unnecessary Mass Destruction Could Help Guide Future Nuclear Arms Talks, by Tara Sonenshine
Peace and Nonviolence, with Rev. John Dear, by Cyril Mychalejko
Stealing God’s Stuff: Is E. B. White the Forgotten Prophet of Our Nuclear Doom?, by Lesley M.M. Blume
Counting the Dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Alex Wellerstein
A time of Unprecedented Danger: It Is 90 Seconds to Midnight, by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Signal | Peace Activism from Bucks County to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Barbara Simmons

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