Anger, sorrow of fiery hibakusha torchbearer still inspire successor

NAGASAKI—Atomic bomb survivors gathered at Nagasaki Peace Park here 35 years ago to protest the laying of a wreath by the ...
Newsday

A-bomb survivors use Nobel Peace Prize to share anti-nuke message with the young

TOKYO — The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they ...

A-bomb survivor on discovering her life’s calling at Nobel forum

Following the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, hibakusha recounted stories of surviving the atomic bombings to an ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement formed by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic ...
Phys.org

Survivors' voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action

Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. By the end of that year, approximately 140,000 people had ...
Los Angeles Times

They survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and then they saved the world

You’ve heard of the hibakusha, although you may not know them by that name. They are the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago this month. The word means, roughly, ...