300 Protest to Mark Bombing of Hiroshima
About 300 protesters marched on the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant, waving banners and carrying ashes to symbolize the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
“You are protecting a death camp,” protester Erik Johnson, 59, shouted at two dozen security guards watching from the other side of a barricade at an entrance to the facility, which made uranium for the “Little Boy” bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
Johnson and four other protesters, ages 69 to 86, were arrested for blocking the roadway. About 50 people held a counterdemonstration.
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