{"id":166310,"date":"2020-08-10T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=166310"},"modified":"2020-08-05T06:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:19:25","slug":"the-hibakushas-75-year-journey-to-ban-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/the-hibakushas-75-year-journey-to-ban-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hibakusha\u2019s 75-Year Journey to Ban Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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6\/9 Aug 2020 – <\/em>A nuclear attack is almost too horrific to imagine. But take a few minutes and try to walk in the footsteps of the hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Follow their journey from 6 and 9 August 1945 through a lifetime of advocacy to eliminate nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

ICAN is grateful to the 1945 Project<\/a> for allowing the use of photos and testimonies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Imagine a blinding light. Then complete darkness. Silence. And then screams.<\/h3>\n
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THE BOMBING<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI was three years old at the time of the bombing. I don\u2019t remember much, but I do recall that my surroundings turned blindingly white, like a million camera flashes going off at once. Then, pitch darkness. I was buried alive under the house, I\u2019ve been told.\u201d<\/p>\n

Location: Nagasaki<\/strong>
\nDistance from hypocenter: 3.4km<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn more from Yasujiro Tanaka<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maybe you crawl out of the rubble before it crushes you or maybe you are pulled out by an uncle, a neighbour, a stranger.\u00a0 You open your eyes and witness something unlike you\u2019ve ever seen before.<\/p>\n

Your home, flattened. Your neighbour\u2019s home, flattened. Your city, burning. Your families\u2019, friends\u2019, neighbours\u2019, classmates\u2019, coworkers\u2019 bodies, burnt. Eyeballs hanging out of their sockets.<\/p>\n

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In the face of unprecedented childhood trauma, many hibakusha have dedicated their lives to ensuring that no one else must face what they did on 6 and 9 August 1945. They shouldn\u2019t have to bear this burden alone. As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the bombings of their cities, join the survivors in calling on the world\u2019s governments to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and eliminate nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

ICAN is grateful to the 1945 Project<\/a> for allowing the use of photos and testimonies.<\/p>\n

TO READ FULL REPORT Go to Original \u2013 icanw.org<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons-ICAN is a global civil society coalition working to promote adherence to and full implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. The campaign helped bring about this treaty. ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 541 partner organizations in 103 countries as of 2019. The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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6\/9 Aug 2020 – A nuclear attack is almost too horrific to imagine. But take a few minutes and try to walk in the footsteps of the hibakusha, the survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Follow their journey from 6 and 9 August 1945 through a lifetime of advocacy to eliminate nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":132909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[2046,853,2082,2090,2045,1476,1566,429,1323,1361,1301,450,112,70,875,581],"class_list":["post-166310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-alamogordo-new-mexico","tag-atomic-weapons","tag-hibakusha","tag-ican-international-campaign-to-abolish-nuclear-weapons","tag-manhattan-project","tag-nuclear-abolition","tag-nuclear-arms-in-space","tag-nuclear-ban-treaty","tag-nuclear-club","tag-nuclear-disaster","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-pentagon","tag-usa","tag-wmd","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}