item details
NamePoster, 'Hiroshima Day March'
ProductionGreenpeace; publisher; 1980s; Wellington
Classificationposters
Materialspaper
DimensionsOverall: 296mm (width), 420mm (height)
Registration NumberGH003650/2
Credit lineGift of Mark Strange, 1989
Overview
This poster advertises a march for a Hiroshima Day in the 1980s.
At the end of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Both cities were devastated. At least 70,000 people were killed instantly in the Hiroshima blast and 40,000 instantly in the Nagasaki blast, with tens of thousands more dying or suffering from radiation in years to come. These atomic bombs were the first to be used in war and they kick-started the nuclear-arms race.