In collaboration with the Japan Committee for UNICEF, Japan’s award-winning singer-songwriter, Ai, and the Lasting Peace Project, are set to launch the “Lasting Peace for Every Child” peace education project to coincide with the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan. A special live performance will take place May 21.
Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament argues that we cannot rely on luck to protect us from the risk of nuclear war. As we mark the 77th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must remember what nuclear use means, and try and understand what nuclear war would look like today.
As Hiroshima prepares to mark the 77th anniversary of the A-bomb dropped on it by the United States on August 6, 1945, some of its residents are brushing up on anti-nuclear messaging with the help of a program run by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Underlining UN commitment to achieving a nuclear-free world, Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments to strengthen efforts to make this goal a reality.
This virtual exhibit situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar, antinuclear, and social justice movements from 1945 to 2020.
Hiroshima University students vow to take on the responsibility of spreading the stories and honoring the strength of atomic bombing survivors.
This post commemorating the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invokes the hope to be found in “see[ing] each other fully and remember[ing our] humanity.”
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Democracy Now! spoke with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. Hideko is the founder of One Sunny Day Initiatives, a peace education organization that educates about the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons.
Seventy-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the anti-nuclear movement is taking big steps toward abolition. To achieve a world free of nuclear weapons we need to look at the root causes of why our society continues to embrace these forms of violence.
CND Peace Education is encouraging people to fold peace cranes ahead of Hiroshima Day (Aug 6) and Nagasaki Day (Aug 9). In this video, viewers can learn how to create an origami crane and also the inspirational story of Sadako Sasaki who survived the bomb which fell on Hiroshima, and how she made the peace crane a global symbol of peace.
The letter from Helen Young is a response to “Plowshares and Pandemics,” an earlier article in our Corona Connections series that highlighted Helen’s film, “The Nuns the Priests and the Bombs.” Helen illuminates the great difference in scale of the consequent damage and the long-term effects inherent in the existential threats of nuclear weapons in comparison to COVID-19.
“No More Hiroshima: No More Nagasaki: Peace Museum” and Raman Science Centre arranged “No More Hiroshima: No More Nagasaki: Peace Exhibition” from 6 to 9 August 2018 at Raman Science Centre and Planetoarius, department of Ministry of Culture, Government of India.