Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to the world and we must not become complacent about this peril.”
Civil society has an important role to play in raising awareness and exerting pressure for action. “There is an urgent need to increase public awareness of these risks and to mobilize public support for decisive action on arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament. “Seventy-five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is limited global public awareness of the risks posed by nuclear weapons,” said Williams. The world should not forget the devastation nuclear weapons can wreak. What is the legacy of the atomic bombings and how are they viewed in Japanese culture? Three Tufts professors gave us their takeaways: Hosea Hirata, a professor of Japanese literature Susan Napier, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, who focuses on Japanese anime and Abi Williams, F86, F87, director of the Institute for Global Leadership and a professor of the practice of international politics at The Fletcher School. Deaths from the bombings are estimated to be around 150,000. It was the first time nuclear weapons had been used, followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki. August 6 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city Hiroshima.
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