67 years ago the city of Nagasaka in Japan was destroyed by an atomic bomb, three days after another bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. Tomihisa Taue, Nagasaki’s current mayor, was born in 1956 and he remembers the eyewitness accounts of those who survived the bombings. For that reason he has become a campaigner for a nuclear-free world.
Taue is a leading figure in the Mayors for Peace movement and he takes wherever he can his city’s powerful message of nuclear disarmament. The video below was taped in Vienna, when he was in the Austrian capital to address the May 2012 Preparatory Committee for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
Since last year’s disaster at the Fukushima reactor in Japan, the nuclear issue has inspired citizens in Japan and elsewhere to demand an end to nuclear tests and urge governments to switch to alternative energy.
