Hiroshima-Nagasaki Poster exhibit in Lincoln Nebraska

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Poster exhibit at First United Methodist Church: Japanese Groups, Nebraskans For Peace and other entities sponsor.

Nebraskans for Peace, First United Methodist Church and the Prairie Peace Park, in cooperation with the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and the City of Hiroshima, are sponsoring an exhibit of 30 posters concerning the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The exhibit will run from August 1 to August 31 at First United Methodist Church, 2723 N. 50th Street in Lincoln in the Black Fellowship Hall in the lower level of the church (accessible through the east door of the church off 50th street). Nebraskans for Peace president, Paul A. Olson, indicated that Nebraskans for Peace and the other sponsors are honored to have the exhibit and hope that it will remind Nebraskans that America’s nuclear arsenal is commanded from Nebraska’s STRATCOM command near Omaha and could, at a moment’s notice, unleash unimaginable horrors on the world.

For their part, the Japanese sponsors, the City of Hiroshima and the Hiroshima Peace Foundation, wish to remind Nebraskans what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first cities to experience the horror of nuclear weapons. Both were devastated in an instant, and tens of thousands of precious lives were lost. Many of those who managed to survive still suffer today from disorders attributable to A-bomb radiation. The survivors’ long-held wish is to let no one else ever suffer as they did, and the two cities have for decades appealed for a world of genuine peace free from nuclear weapons.

The form that their appeal has taken is the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, which was created to convey the realities of atomic bombings in order to appeal to the world for recognition of the value of peace. The exhibition features 30 photo posters of the destruction and the aftermath, films, and books. This exhibition is not designed to complain or make anyone feel bad about the past. It comes to us only as a warning that the problem of nuclear weapons is not solved; it is intensifying. The human family will decide in the next two years whether to eliminate them or let them spread. The exhibition is a prayer for peace that describes the horror of nuclear devastation to underline the vital importance of pursuing peace right now.

This exhibit will be held in well over 101 American cities between August 6, 2007 and December 2008.