item details
NamePoster, 'Hiroshima Day'
ProductionCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament (N.Z.); publisher; 1991; New Zealand
Classificationpolitical posters
Materialspaper, ink
DimensionsOverall: 298mm (width), 419mm (height)
Registration NumberGH024547
Credit lineGift of the Estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, 2015
Overview
This poster advertises events for Hiroshima Day, 6 August 1991, in Wellington, New Zealand.
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.
The poster includes images of ground zero in Hiroshima and the Soviet-designed Chernobyl reactor encased in concrete. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 resulted in 30 deaths within weeks.