Overview

• The digital archive contains more than 400 profiles with photos, life histories and accounts of families’ anguish following the 1945 bombings.
• ICAN aims to use the children’s stories to honour their memories and strengthen calls for complete nuclear weapon abolition.
• President Trump’s recent comparison of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities provoked survivor protests and prompted Hiroshima’s assembly to condemn justifications of atomic weapons.
• Israel’s ambassador to Japan will attend the Nagasaki ceremony while Russia’s envoy will join only the August 9 commemoration, underscoring ongoing diplomatic sensitivities.
• With fewer than 100,000 hibakusha survivors remaining, the project highlights the urgent need to document firsthand testimonies before they disappear.