Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A History with artists' feeling

Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A History with artists' feeling

Seventy five years ago this week, the world experienced a disaster that was to change the nature of war everlastingly: The atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and worse — while the Japanese argued among themselves about whether and how to surrender — a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later on August 9th. That horror, encapsulated by those few words, continues to resonate worldwide.....

"The trouble with having weapons of mass destruction is that if you have got them, it will be tempting, under certain circumstances, to use them."

“The reaction to the cataclysmic events of 6 August 1945 was also the beginning of a global push to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again”, Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, said on behalf of the UN Secretary-General, speaking at the Hiroshima Annual Peace Ceremony (6 August 2019).

It's 75 years...

It’s difficult to quantify the breadth of the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; but since those pivotal August days in 1945 when World War II suddenly became a nuclear war, many filmmakers have attempted to capture the uncertainty that nuclear weapons have unleashed.

As long as they exist, nuclear weapons will inevitably lead to disaster. Please lend us your strength to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth and make sure that Nagasaki is the last place on the Earth to suffer an atomic bomb. Let us all work together, all of us, to build a peaceful world, a world free of war. The atomic bomb is not an ordinary weapon, so it should not be used in any war. As you know, even war has limits.

The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.

The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous.

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The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay navigator Major Theodore Van Kirk (L), pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets and bombardier Major Thomas Ferebee after dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.(AFP: US Air Force)

Paintings and artifact images: Collected from different sources.

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