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Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2012

By Kazumi Matsui, Mayor, The City of Hiroshima 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. Our hometown was reduced to ashes by a single atomic bomb. The houses we came home to, our everyday lives, the customs we cherished–all were gone: “Hiroshima…

Video: Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011

Every August 6, Winnipeggers commemorate the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony. People come together to make and float their lanterns in a pond in the middle of the city to express…

Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2011

By Matsui Kazumi, Mayor, Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 2011 Sixty-six years ago, despite the war, the people of Hiroshima were leading fairly normal lives. Until that fateful moment, many families were enjoying life together right here in what is now Peace…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011

By Paul S. Graham, Aug. 4, 2011 On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people were killed. On…

Lanterns for Peace 2011

Location: Memorial Park, Winnipeg (by the fountain) Every August 6, citizens in thousands of communities around the world commemorate the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and rededicate themselves to the cause of peace and disarmament. In Winnipeg, a…

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Hubris and Tragedy

by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge From Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the witches brew of melting, spewing and exploding nuclear matter at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the history of humanity’s first…