Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

AUGUST 9TH 2025

August 9th 2025 was the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki.  A few days earlier, on August 6th, the first atomic bomb had fallen on Hiroshima.  These cataclysmic events brought an end to the Second World War but at the cost of countless Japanese lives and hopes for the future.  

On August 9th, we gathered to remember them.  More than sixty people from Norwich Peace Camp, CND and Norwich Quakers met around the Peace Sculpture, Memorial Garden for speeches, stories and singing led by our own Rick Stuart-Shepperd.  Another thirty or forty joined our procession through the city centre to Chapelfield Gardens behind the CND banner urging No More Nuclear War. At 11am we paid tribute with words and music and shared a picnic lunch.

Thank you to Sue Wright, Chair of Norwich CND and other participants for providing these photographs.