Link to a recording of the lecture: A recording of Mr. Gareth Evans’ lecture Link to the written text of Mr. Gareth Evans’ lecture: Why we should eliminate nuclear weapons

I offer to you Icelanders, who are peace-loving and love other people, a good evening. My name is Inosuke Hayasaki, I come from the city of Nagasaki in Japan and I am a messenger of peace at the Atomic Bomb Exhibition here in Iceland. 67 years have passed since the nuclear bombs were dropped on [...]

As the director of the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, I am greatly honored to be holding this Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Exhibition in the Republic of Iceland. The two atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima instantly destroyed both cities and took the lives of over 200,000 ordinary citizens. The [...]

On That Day, at That Time: My Atomic Bombing By Inosuke Hayasaki (Mr. Hayasaki was fourteen years old at the time of the atomic bombing) Mr. Hayasaki was working at Mitsubishi Arms Factory when the atomic bomb exploded 1.1 kilometers away. He was over at one of the engineering buildings at the time, having been [...]

In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced our cities to utter ruin and took over 200,000 precious lives. Those who managed to survive have since suffered the devastating aftereffects of radiation, the peculiar horror of a nuclear weapon. Even today, the full scope of radiation effects has yet to be elucidated, and survivors still live [...]

We are faced with an ugly reality in this heart-breaking exhibition on the victims of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 67 years ago. But this is a reality that the whole world – including Icelanders – must face. It shows the undeniable horrors that the use of nuclear weapons can result [...]