Two of the people behind some of the most progressive nuclear disarmament legislation of any major city in the United States share some details of their work, to show what others can do to bring nuclear abolitionism home. They also give a sense of New York’s long history as a nuclear city and as a hotbed of anti-nuclear activism.
The family of Sadako Sasaki, who died of radiation poisoning in 1955, wants her paper cranes recognized by UNESCO as a significant symbol of the horrors.
The family of Sadako Sasaki, who died of radiation poisoning in 1955, wants her paper cranes recognized by UNESCO as a historically significant symbol of the horrors of nuclear weapons.
It has taken 78 years, but the boy in an iconic photograph of him being treated for horrific facial burns after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima finally has a name, Nario Harada.
In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families, and from the memoirs of survivors and records compiled by Hiroshima city. The photos were provided by the bereaved families. Some of the images were colorized using artificial intelligence technology with the help of Hiroshi Ishikawa, a professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, whose team developed the technology.