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 is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.
Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, "La Loca." Panela Music.
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