HIROSHIMA CITY OF PEACE
8.15 AM ON 6 AUGUST 1945
””Monday morning was clear and the temperature rose quickly as the midsummer sun rose.
An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima for the first time in human history.
Forty-three seconds after the bomb was dropped, it exploded with a blinding flash of light 600 meters above the ground, creating a scorching fireball that could be called a miniature sun. The temperature at the center of the fireball exceeded 1 million degrees Celsius, and one second later it was over 200 meters in radius, with the temperature on the ground surface around the hypocenter reaching 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius.
At the moment of the explosion, intense heat rays and radiation were emitted in all directions, and the surrounding air expanded to form a super high-pressure blast.
The characteristics of the damage caused by the atomic bombs are that mass destruction and mass murder occurred instantaneously and indiscriminately, and that people suffered from radiation damage for a long time afterward.””
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FROM HIROSHIMA TO THE WORLD
The goal for a peace-culture society is sustainable universal wellbeing.
"This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world"
LIFE WAS DESTROYED
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
The nuclear bomb exploded over the centre of the city levelling and burning 1.2 miles of the hypo centre.
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
Reconstruction from destruction by a nuclear weapon. Hiroshima was reconstructed after the bombing.
The City is a shining example of a people actively working around the world for reconstruction and peace building.
The message of' peace from Hiroshima is an echo from Japan to the world.
COMMITMENT TO WORLD PEACE
RECONSTRUCTION FROM DESTRUCTION
COMMITMENT TO WORLD PEACE
Hiroshima was the first city to experience an atomic bomb in human history. The City's commitment to the abolition of nuclear weapons and lasting world peace is resonated in our exhibitions.
ICHIRO MORITAKI
ICHIRO MORITAKI
COMMITMENT TO WORLD PEACE
Ichiro Moritaki, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, came to a profound insight into the meaning of this new weapon while awaiting recovery in his hospital bed.
He said, "Human beings can no longer resolve conflicts through destructive power struggles.
STEPHEN LEEPER
ICHIRO MORITAKI
STEPHEN LEEPER
Stephen Leeper, Chairman of Peace Culture Foundation
"No one will create peace for us. We must act on our own, and we have an appropriate role to play. I ask for your cooperation."
SADAKO SASAKI
ICHIRO MORITAKI
STEPHEN LEEPER
Sadako was two years old when two kilometres away from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Up until the time she was in the seventh grade (1955) she was a normal, happy girl. Then she was diagnosed with leukemia which was known as the “A-bomb disease”.
During Sadako's stay in the hospital, her best friend, Chizuko, came to visit her and brought some origami (folding paper) and told Sadako of a legend. She explained that the crane, a sacred bird in Japan, lives for a hundred years, and if a sick person folds 1,000 paper cranes, then that person would soon get well. The act of folding a crane started by Sadako and her classmates turned into a national, then an international, children's peace movement.
Children from all over the world still send folded paper cranes to be placed beneath Sadako’s statue.