BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOMB

Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima:

British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known. Guardian. 30 June 2011

Focus: Hiroshima Day 2010

We Will Never Forget - Reflections by Fidel Castro (.pdf file)

Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2007: Aim for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

At 1:45 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay , took off from Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands. It carried the world's second atomic bomb, the first having been detonated three weeks earlier at a US test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Reason and Circumstances of the Hiroshima Bomb

Hiroshima raises many profound questions about how the Twentieth Century will be remembered: Who defines world culture? How do we treat our cultural heritage? Who remembers what, and for which purpose?

US Nuclear Hypocrisy: Bad for the US, Bad for the World By David Krieger

Every five years the parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meet in a review conference to further the non-proliferation and disarmament goals of the treaty. This year the conference ended in a spectacular failure with no final document and no agreement on moving forward. For the first ten days of the conference, the US resisted agreement on an agenda that made any reference to past commitments.

Eyewitness account of the bombing

Taniguchi Sumiteru, now in his mid-70s, is a hibakusha. He is also a leader of a survivors' organisation in Nagasaki. During a session this month at the United Nations sponsored by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers' Organisations, he spoke of his own experience and his desire for peace. His testimony is reprinted here.

Hiroshima after the bomb - 360 degree panorama