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Masako Wada urged policymakers around the world to 'take the leadership ... toward human society free of nuclear weapons.' ...
The Hibakusha recollections help to demystify nuclear weapons, and remove any euphoria or sanitization about the use of atomic bombs. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that one day there will be a world ...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement formed by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...
As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war ...
HIROSHIMA -- "We want to convey the message that even when the war has ended, the suffering that remains with people lasts a ...
The hibakusha were also a counternarrative to a Japan that was developing into a high-tech economic giant fueled, in some cases, by nuclear power. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, ...
Hibakusha have called for Japan to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which bans the use, possession, testing and transfer of nuclear arms.
They are called the Hibakusha. They are a unique group of Japanese, who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagazaki during World War II. They hope their dramatic stories will ...
Now, with their average age at 85.6, the hibakusha are increasingly frustrated that their fear of a growing nuclear threat and push to eliminate nuclear weapons are not fully understood by younger ...
Hibakusha also hid their experiences from their children for fear people would not want to marry them knowing their parents' history. "False rumors were spread, like an epidemic," she said.
Let there be no more Hibakusha. Mary Dickson. Mary Dickson is a Salt Lake City writer whose award-winning play, “Exposed,” puts a human face on the human cost of nuclear testing.
Hibakusha have provided a living legacy to the horrors and threat of nuclear war. The threat continues to this day, fueled by a new nuclear arms race initiated by the United States proposal to ...
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