Hiroshima

Hibakusha: Satoru Konishi

I am an A-Bomb survivor of Hiroshima.

I wonder how I can make you understand the horror of atomic bombs. I myself witnessed and experienced it but I suffered an enormous shock the next day and now retain only a few fragments of my memory. Most if it has been lost.

Hiroshima 2011 Peace Declaration

Every year, on August 6, the sitting mayor of Hiroshima presents a peace declaration, calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament.  The speech is presented to commemorate the lives of the 200,000 people were killed by the four-tonne uranium bomb which exploded above Hiroshima in 1945, devastating the city.

Nobel Peace Winners In Japan Argue For Nuclear Ban

Former Nobel Peace Prize winners at the Hiroshima Memorial

HIROSHIMA, Japan November 14, 2010, 12:35 am ET

Nobel Peace Prize laureates including the Dalai Lama argued for a world without nuclear weapons Sunday at a ceremony in the Japanese city where the first wartime atomic bomb exploded 65 years ago.

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