Please take a moment to read the survivor testimonies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Testimony from the survivors
 

CND had the privilege of hosting two Hibakusha, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, when they visited London with the Peace Boat in June.

Toshiko Tanaka was only six years old when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She described bright whiteness as the bomb hit and suddenly she found her face and neck burned; she still bears the scars today. In the days that followed the attack, she fell ill from radiation poisoning and remembers the smell of burnt bodies, which still haunts her today.

Ogawa Tadayoshi was just a baby when the bomb hit Nagasaki. Although his family were not hurt directly by the bomb, he spoke of the deadly surface radiation that poisoned them in the days following the bomb and the long-term dangers of radiation, like cancer, sickness and birth deformities.

The testimonies from the Hibakusha are crucial for the work of CND; they motivate our fight for a world without nuclear weapons. I hope you feel the same and that you would like to honour the survivors by supporting our campaign.

The need for CND has never been more urgent — unless we take action we may well face the horrors of another atomic bomb. Supporting CND is the most effective way of preventing the use of nuclear weapons.

Please give whatever you can. We are so grateful for every donation, however large or small.

In peace,

Kate Hudson

General Secretary

P.S. The drawing above, by Hiroshima survivor Yoshinori Kato, depicts an injured child trapped in the rubble of a fallen school. The school burned before any of the students could be rescued.

© Artist: Yoshinori Kato, Collection of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum