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

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par Masako Toki, Senior Education Project Manager and Research Associate, Nonproliferation Education Program, Middlebury

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 died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki.

Those who survived – known as Hibakusha – have carried their suffering as living testimony…