Poster, 'No More Hiroshimas'

This poster advertises events around Hiroshima Day, 6 August 1990, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Artist Penelope Newman designed the poster in 1983 and it was reprinted over subsequent years, most likely by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

At the end of the Second World War (1939-45), 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 Nagasaki, 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 and fears of global annihilation.

The poster features a white poppy above ground zero in Hiroshima. Internationally, the white poppy represents remembrance for all victims of war – both civilians and of armed forces personnel – a commitment to peace, and a challenge to attempts to glamorise or celebrate war.