Antinuclear

Sharing a story of survival — IPPNW peace and health blog

I speak as a member of the family of hibakusha – those of us who, by some miraculous chance, survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more than seven decades, we have worked for the total abolition of nuclear weapons. On the seventh of July of 2017, I was overwhelmed with joy when a great majority of the world’s nations voted to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Having witnessed humanity at its worst, I witnessed, that day, humanity at its best. We hibakusha had been waiting for the ban for seventy-two years. Let it be the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.

via Sharing a story of survival — IPPNW peace and health blog

October 10, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized