Remembering Hiroshima Working for a Nuclear Weapons Free World

American Friends Service Committee presents

Remembering Hiroshima Working for a Nuclear Weapons Free World

1 February - 29 February 

Cambridge Public Library- Central Square Branch 45 Pearl Street Cambridge , MA

 The exhibit consists of rare and deeply moving photographs of the consequences of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombings and paintings by the Hibakusha (witness/survivors of the A-Bombs.)  It was given to us by Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederatoin of A- & H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations.

     In addition to the exhibit, we are partnering with WILPF’s First Thursday Film Series and have arranged four  important public talks over the course of the month.  Here’s the schedule. The film and each talk begin at 7 p.m. SHARP!

     February 4 – Film “Containment” about the dangers of storing nuclear waste, with directors Peter Gibson  and Robb Moss

     February 9 – Joseph Gerson: Hibakusha and their quest for a nuclear weapons-free world

     February 16 – Ward Wilson: The Realist Case for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

     February 18 – Hillary Chute: Graphic Novels and the Trauma of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

     February 25 – Elaine Scarry: Democracy and Nuclear Weapons Cannot Co-Exist

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