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The article talks about how thousands of people from around the country came together in Manhattan to protest the use of nuclear weapons.

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Late in the afternoon, Alice T. McGillion, a Police Department spokesman, said there might be as many as 600,000 or 700,000 people around the park. ''There's so much movement it's hard to be certain,'' she said.

Other estimates of the size of the crowd were even higher. As the marchers entered Central Park, Michael Siegel, a park ranger, addressed them through a megaphone. ''You have made the world's largest peace rally ever,'' he said. ''We estimate three-quarters of a million people.''

Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke of the acres of people as a political force. ''We have come here in numbers so large that the message must get through to the White House and Capitol Hill,'' she told the gathering.

''It's great,'' Mayor Koch said. ''I only wish the same thing had happened in Moscow.'' The Mayor, who was not permitted to make a speech because he is involved in a political campaign, walked to the United Nations with a group from Queens and later mingled with the throng. Lieut. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, one of the Mayor's rivals for the Demo-cratic nomination for Governor, marched near the beginning of the long parade and carried an Olympic torch.

The sponsor of the demonstration was the June 12 Rally Committee, an umbrella organization of religious and secular peace groups. The groups participating ranged from radicals seeking immediate unilateral disarmament by the United States to moderates asking a resumption of negotiations on arms cutbacks.

The rally was to mark the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament, which began last Tuesday. Many world leaders are to give addresses at the session, including President Reagan on Thursday.

Many of the dozens of speakers during the day urged the participants to continue the movement when they returned to their homes. ''We shall not suffer silently the threat of nuclear holocaust,'' said City Council President Carol Bellamy, who addressed the crowd near the United Nations.

Because of the crush, the rally in the park ended an hour later than its scheduled 6 P.M. close. Outside the area of march and rally, the city was strangely quiet for a Saturday afternoon. The police, who had 5,000 officers on overtime, had warned motorists to stay away from Manhattan because of traffic jams. Businesses complained that the rally had cost them millions of dollars.

The demonstrators had massed in blocks between First and Third Avenues from 47th to 56th Streets for the morning speeches in the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and the march across 42d Street, up Fifth and Seventh Avenues and on to the Great Lawn at 81st Street. In the assembly areas, diverse groups were thrust together. On one street, the marching units, in order, were the Communist Party U.S.A., the Kings County Democratic Coalition and Animators Against Armageddon, a cartoonists' group.

Along the march there were floats and balloons, jugglers and babies in strollers. Many artists had prepared antinuclear events in the last month and had brought their creations to the march. There were dancers and scientists, computer programmers and environmental activists, religious groups of all denominations.

Perhaps the only dissenters in the huge throng were a group of about 40 people who stood for a time at 42d Street and First Avenue. They carried signs saying, ''Build Up or Freeze to Death'' and ''Peace Is a Soviet Weapon of Conquest.'' Leonard Holihan, a businessman based in London, said his organization was called Coalition for Peace Through Security. Profusion of Placards

Among the marchers, there was a profusion of placards: ''Choose Life''; ''Bread Not Bombs''; ''No Nukes''; ''Reagan Is A Bomb - Both Should Be Banned''; ''U.S. Out of El Salvador''; ''Freeze or Burn''; ''Build Houses Not Bomb Shelters''; ''A Feminist World Is a Nuclear-Free Zone,'' ''Arms Are for Embracing.'' A little girl carried a sign saying, ''I Hate Nuclear War,'' and one marcher had an inflated rubber whale with the legend ''Save the Humans.''

Along the way, Clara W. Mayer, 87 years old, was being pushed in a wheelchair up Central Park West by two private nurses. The nurses were chanting with the crowd, ''No Nukes! No Nukes!'' while Mrs. Mayer, wrapped in a shawl, watched the throng. ''Wild, it's really wild,'' she said.

Andre Shapiro, an optics technician from Springfield, Mass., said he had been protesting war since 1967. ''This feels like the 60's,'' he said. ''It feels hopeful, inspiring. I always feel like, even if nothing comes of it, it's like Custer's last stand. It's good for our souls.''

Many participants recalled the age of protest that slackened after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. ''I got interested when Reagan was talking about neutron bombs,'' said Christine Bittel, 30, of Hartford. ''I haven't been that mad since the 60's.''

Some of the marchers went back to an earlier time. ''Our first demonstration was on Boston Common in October 1947 to welcome the U.N. to San Francisco,'' said Eugene Belisle, 72. ''Nineteen fortysix,'' interjected his wife, Ruth. The Belisles brought their 14-year-old granddaughter, Kate Phinney, for her first demonstration. ''I think it's great,'' the ninth grader said. ''I told my mother: 'I'm going. You can come with me or I'll go alone.' ''

The fringe of the rally site in Central Park was a vast bazaar of soda and ice cream, political publications, T-shirts, protest buttons and a hundred other items. Hundreds of the demonstrators had camped there overnight, in sleeping bags and on blankets.

''They're just flopping down by any tree they can find,'' said one officer on duty in the park Friday night. A small band of campers from Quebec City had been on the road for seven days, driving and hitchhiking.

''We have only one great special feeling about all of it,'' said Robert Mienard, one of the Canadians. ''They have to stop nuclear armament - every kind of armament.''

Others had got up before dawn for the long trip. The 27 buses carrying the Hartford contingent left at 6 A.M. and parked in Queens to allow the marchers to come the rest of the way by subway. The rally organizers said 2,000 buses in all had been chartered for the event.

At the rally, between speeches, entertainment was boomed from the huge stage over the hundreds of thousands of heads camped on the dusty lawn. Among those who sang were Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt. The old peacemovement songs came back in waves from the throng.

The June 12 Rally Committee had more than 2,000 volunteers in red T-shirts reading ''Disarm'' to help the crowd, and volunteer doctors and nurses to attend to fatigue and injuries. The police said 54 participants and five officers had been treated for sprains and eye injuries, none the result of violence. The organizers also had 500 collectors soliciting donations for the cause. They estimated that the rally would cost $700,000.

Norma Becker of the committee staff said communications among various units had been slowed by the theft of 20 walkie-talkies on Friday. During the parade up to the rally, gentle anarchy prevailed as some blocks were packed with thousands of marchers while on others there were only a few dozen.

Miss Becker said the police and other city agencies had been exceptionally cooperative. At 42d Street and Seventh Avenue, three of the officers on duty wore necklaces of folded paper cranes over their uniforms. The crane, the Japanese symbol for longevity, has been adopted by the disarmament movement.

Further along the route, one policeman stood in the center of a group of marchers and talked to them. ''I was in the service in the 60's,'' he said. ''You know how they brainwash you there. Well, when I got out, most of the marching in '69 was over, and there was a new era. But now, it's just like a resurrection. This march is for everybody. Whatever happens, we're going to get toasted.''

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THRONGS FILL MANHATTAN TO PROTEST NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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Late in the afternoon, Alice T. McGillion, a Police Department spokesman, said there might be as many as 600,000 or 700,000 people around the park. ''There's so much movement it's hard to be certain,'' she said. Other estimates of the size of the crowd were even higher.

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The subject in this video is nuclear weapons. The purpose in this song is to show the effects of nuclear war and how it impacts people. The tone in this song is harsh because it talks about how there is nowhere to hide once nuclear war strikes.

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Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic

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Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic

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The subject in this video is nuclear war. The purpose of this song is to make people aware of nuclear weapons. The tone in this song is ironic and humorous because while it is at Christmas time it's message is still clear on how nuclear war impacts people.

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''Weird Al'' Yankovic - Christmas at Ground Zero (W/ LYRICS)

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As you can see in this photo, nuclear war is the ultimate enemy and nuclear weapons are invoking fear among the citizens of the U.S.

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As you can see in this photo, people are gathering to protest nuclear war and nuclear weapons because they fear the idea of mass destruction.

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In this photo you can see the president of the U.S. and the president of the Soviet Union are standing against each other during the Cold War.