REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

The US atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on 6th and 9th August 1945.

By that years end, approximately 250,000 people had died from the effects of these weapons.

Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors from these two events) continue to work to educate the world about the harms of nuclear weapons informed by their own lived experience. They and other survivors of nuclear weapons testing violence are some of the strongest voices calling for nuclear abolition.

In August 2025, we mark the 80th year since these weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Commemorations are taking place across the globe to remember and to call for a world free from nuclear violence.

We honour all survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including those carrying the intergenerational impacts of these events

EVENTS TAKING PLACE IN JAPAN FOR THE COMMEMORATIONS

Hiroshima

- - Visit the City of Hiroshima site to learn about events for this commemorative year.
  - The 2025 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony will host representatives from 196 countries.
  - The Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (JANA) is hosting a range of events.
  - Children’s Peace Memorial launched by ICAN in 2025 is a powerful new contribution to remembering the impacts on children of these weapons.
  - Learn more on the impacts of the weapons in Hiroshima through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park & Museum
  - For other events in towns across Hiroshima Prefecture please visit Hiroshima for Global Peace
  - Hear from the United Nations Youth Dialogue for International Peace on Hiroshima, live streamed on August 6th.

Nagasaki

- - The Nagasaki City Tourism – “Peace Special Feature” lists peace-related events for the commemorations in Nagasaki.
  - Learn more on the impacts of the weapons in Nagasaki through Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.
  - Virtually visit the Nagasaki Peace Park.

DNA Repair. 2017. 16 x 20 in. Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo). artist site | instagram

DNA has the ability to repair itself through complex mechanisms and pathways when damage occurs. Its intricacy of repair can be compared to the creation of beaded items in Native Culture. Designs are thought out ahead and require skill and patience to be able to bead such intricate pieces. When a beaded necklace comes undone, the stones/beads are restrung by using what is already there. The design used is from the Crow Nation. The use of the flower design symbolizes the idea of regrowth.

We would like to acknowledge the use of Ms. Quetawki’s images from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, the University of New Mexico NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy.

We are grateful to Zuni Pueblo artist Mallery Quetawki for designing the beautiful Nuclear Truth Project logo. Combining many symbols familiar within the nuclear free movement, this stunning design evokes both the strength and the long story of the movement we are a living part of. As the artist explains;

“The olive branch is the offering for peace, the arrows are signifying the work towards a common cause and the peace symbol represents the outcome. The handprint represents unity and the sunflower represents remediation. The DNA strand represents the positive outcome for all living things.”