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Mayors for Peace_Certification of MembershipMayors for Peace Certification of Membership DUBUQUE We hereby certify your city as a member of Mayors for Peace. We pledge to make every effort to create inter -city solidarity, transcending national boundaries and ideological differences, in order to achieve our ultimate goal of the total abolition of nuclear weapons and averting a recurrence of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki tragedies. MATSUI Kazumi Mayor of Hiroshima President of the Mayors for Peace Date of issue: January 1, 2013 n i C. I r of ., ti .;C January 10, 2013 The Honorable Mr. Roy D. Buol Mayor Dubuque U.S.A. Dear Mayor Buol, I hope this letter finds you well. I deeply appreciate your decision to join Mayors for Peace and am delighted to welcome your municipality. Please find the enclosed Certificate of Membership. I am looking forward to your involvement in Mayors for Peace activities, including our 2020 Vision Campaign. We need your help to achieve a peaceful world without nuclear weapons. In particular, we would be most grateful if you could invite fellow mayors in your area or your sister /friendship cities to join Mayors for Peace. In addition, we hope you will find opportunities to urge your national government to do everything in its power to promote the abolition of nuclear weapons. We are at a critical tipping point in the struggle to free ourselves from the nuclear threat. Let's work together for a peaceful world and a brighter future. I close with my best wishes for your good health, sound growth, and prosperity for your municipality. Very truly yours, MATSUI Kazumi Mayor of Hiroshima President Mayors for Peace Dear Fellow Mayors for Peace, January, 2013 Request from Mayors for Peace — Poster Exhibition to Commemorate 5,000 — Member Milestone I hope you are in the best of spirits. At the Executive Conference in Granollers, Spain, in November 2011, Mayors for Peace adopted the resolution to hold the Mayors for Peace 5,000- Member Milestone Poster Exhibition throughout our membership, and we have been asking our members to participate in this project through our News Flash and Newsletter. In collaboration with the executive member cities and our friends, the posters are available for downloading in eight languages at the moment, such as English, German, Russian, French, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan and Japanese. To share around the world the experiences of the A -bomb survivors and their message, I am writing to ask your city again to partake in this project. Please find enclosed the brochure on our Poster Exhibition for your reference. Mayors for Peace 5,000 - Member Milestone Poster Exhibition Each member city will need to download the posters from the Mayors for Peace website and prints them out. 1. Outline of the posters - Constitution: 18 main posters and 1 reference information poster - Standard print size: A2 (could be changed to other sizes) - Downloading the poster data: (ID and password required) URL: http:// www. mayorsfoipeace .org /english/campaign/projects /poster /index.html ID: m4p Password: 5000poster 2. Place - City halls, schools, other public facilities, etc. Sincerely yours, 41;;;—' MATSUI Kazumi Mayor of Hiroshima President of Mayors for Peace For more information, please contact: Mayors for Peace Secretariat Administrator: Sugiura (Mr.), Komatsu (Mr.) Peace and International Solidarity Promotion Division Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation 1 -5 Nakajima -cho, Naka -ku, Hiroshima, 730 -0811 Japan Tel: +81 -82- 242 -7821 Fax: +81 -82- 242 -7452 Email: mayors @pcf.city.hiroshima.jp The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki —The 5,000- Member Milestone Exhibition— Mayors for Peace 2012 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki —The 5,000- Member Milestone Exhibition— Message from the Mayors In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced our cities to utter ruin and took over 200,000 precious lives. Many of those who managed to survive have since suffered the devastating aftereffects of radiation, the never - ending horror of a nuclear weapon. Even today, the full scope of radiation effects is unknown, and survivors still live in dread. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have consistently followed the lead of our survivors, who arose from the depths of despair to warn the world about nuclear weapons. Through the efforts of many, we have thus far prevented a third use of such weapons, but sadly, our cherished hope of eliminating them has yet to be fulfilled. In this poster exhibition, you will encounter the terrible damage wrought by the atomic bombing. We hope this encounter will help you understand that nuclear weapons are an absolute evil leading the human race toward extinction. We hope, too, that you will be inspired to do whatever you can to make the 21st a century of peace. We firmly believe that each step taken, however small, increases momentum and strengthens international public demand for a peaceful world free from nuclear weapons. MATSUI Kazumi TAUE Tomihisa Mayor of Hiroshima Mayor of Nagasaki President of Mayors for Peace Vice- President of Mayors for Peace �✓� Mayon for Peace A Warning to the Human Family We want all of you to know the meaning of these clouds what happened under them and how they threaten our future Hiroshima: 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945 Nagasaki: 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 Mushroom Cloud Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Mushroom Cloud Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Mayors for Peace 2 Massive Destruction Three months before this picture was taken, a city stood here. Looking south from the roof of a damaged building (Hiroshima) Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum This was the largest Christian church in East Asia. It took 30 years to build, less than 30 seconds to destroy. Urakami Cathedral (Nagasaki) Around 1946 -1947 Photo: Hisashi Ishida Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Mayors for Peace 3 Tragic Scenes after the Bombing (1) J The atomic bomb was cruel and inhumane. People died gruesome deaths. Nagasaki Drawn by Katsuki Takeshita Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Near Inasa Bridge The women's bodies were infested with white maggots. Nagasaki Drawn by Shigcru Morimoto Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum A destroyed steel mill Nagasaki Drawn by Hiroshi Matsuzoe Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum They tried to escape the fire in water but died in this cistern. Nagasaki Drawn by Sadao Takagi Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum A shelter in Yanagawa Park Nagasaki Drawn by Kenji Soejima Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum ----fl r ;w,...,i_;,ft' ate. - rit;; The Urakami area after the bombing Nagasaki Drawn by Mura Ashizuka Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum "A -bomb Drawings" by survivors are scenes that defy the power of words to convey. They are valuable historical records. The words accompanying the drawings are provided by the artists. 0 Mayors for Peace 4 Tragic Scenes after the Bombing (2) The bomb was indiscriminate, killing combatants and noncombatants alike. The destruction was massive and extended beyond the battlefield in both space and time. It burned so fast! I thought a bomb had exploded right over my head, but the whole city had tumbled over. And it burned so fast! Voices near and far screamed for help in desperate pain. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 1,380m from the hypoeenter Drawn by Kazuhiro Ishizu Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ;r. Ly�c Y>! rt. ; sr rr 1J .1 • t / - Calamity on the bridge I saw this calamitous scene on the Sumiyoshi Bridge from the west side of Funairi - saiwai -cho. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 1,390m from the bypoceoter Drawn by Yoshie Micbita Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 4416•411r. ttt•.:.ny:t,�.etac�ot in ,i.�;�'4.nsy�a..aa•ns.:yw% =x.�: mvca�.,.�.nc..�.t•.. .••�;',�• 9 _a .p .x A Bloated bodies covered the surface of the river They must have jumped in the river to escape their suffering. The surface was covered with bloated, floating bodies of people who died in the water. When I look at the riverbank today, I can't help but remember how I felt then. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 1,290m from the hypoceoter Drawn by Masahiko Nakata Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Mayors for Peace Damage Caused by the Heat Ray (1) The surface of this tile boiled, then cooled rough and bubbly. Tiles like this were found out to 600 meters in Hiroshima and 800 meters in Nagasaki. A- bombed tile (Nagasaki) Donated by Masatake Uchino Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum The right side of this jacket was instantly burned away. National Defense Corps Uniform (Nagasaki) 1,400m from the hypocenler Donated by Fumikatsu Kan Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum eMews far Peace 6 Damage Caused by the Heat Ray (2) For a few seconds at the hypocenter, the temperature on the ground was 3,000 to 4,000 degrees. Out to 1,200 meters, directly exposed skin was charred and burned through all layers. Further out, skin blistered immediately. Their clothes ripped to shreds, their skin hanging down On the riverbank I saw figures that seemed to be from another world. Ghost -like, their hair falling over their faces, their clothes ripped to shreds, their skin hanging in tatters. A cluster of these injured persons moved wordlessly toward the outskirts. Hiroshima August 6, 1945, around 10 am 4,250m from the hypocenter Drawn by Yoshisuke Yoshimura Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Sixteen year -old Sumiteru Taniguchi was exposed 1,800 meters from the hypocenter. His burns were deep. He lay like this for a year and nine months before he could get up and move around. He often begged to be killed when family members changed his bandages. A youth who suffered severe burns on his back Nagasaki Courtesy: Sumiteru Taniguchi MoyorsjorPcaa 7 Damage Caused by the Blast (1) - Buildings- The Hiroshima bomb exploded 600 meters above this building. The pressure was immense, 19 tons per square meter at 500 meters from the hypocenter. Hypocenter area in ruins (Hiroshima) The Shima Hospital was directly under the hypocenter. Its meter -thick walls succumbed to the bomb's powerful blast. Only the circular window and round pillars at the entrance remained to evoke the building now reduced to rubble. November 1945 The hypocenter. Shima Hospital Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Shiroyama National School stood 500 meters from the hypocenter. The shell of the 3 -story ferroconcrete building remained standing after the bombing. Later, weakened by the blast, it collapsed. Shiroyama National School (Nagasaki) This primary school lost 1,400 children, 31 teachers and 105 mobilized students to the bomb. 1945 500m from the hypocenter Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum 0 Mayors josPaw s Damage Caused by the Blast (2) -People- The tremendous blast shattered windows, turning glass fragments into deadly projectiles. People were cut badly. Many fled with glass sticking into their bodies because they couldn't pull it out. People filled with glass Hearing the roar of planes, which we believed were coming to strafe us, we ran and hid in a bamboo grove. Blood was gushing from glass wounds all over my body. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 Drawn by Tomiko Miyaji Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum The blast flattened the whole city in ten seconds. Thousands were crushed under their houses. The trapped or injured, unable to escape from the rubble, were burned alive. e `•.t %.` V • Mother trying to save her trapped daughter Fire attacked as a mother tried desperately to break down a wall to save her daughter. The daughter was alive, trapped under the collapsed house. Oh no! The mother was unable to make a hole of big enough to rescue her. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 1,400m from the hypocenter Drawn by Chiyoe Kagawa Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 0 Mayors for Peace 9 Damage Caused by the Super- High- Temperature Fire Destruction started by heat and blast was completed by fire. These neighborhoods where the blast had inflicted only partial damage were burned to the ground. Burnt City (Nagasaki) Photo: Torahiko Ogawa Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Melted bottles Soy sauce bottles from a brewery Hiroshima 950m from the hypocenter Kubota Honten Donated by Seiichi Kubota Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Waterspout The bomb generated a genuine firestorm, which means it created its own wind, including powerful waterspouts. Hiroshima August 6, 1945 1,300m from the hypocenter Drawn by Hiroko Fukada Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Mayors for Peace 10 Damage due to Radiation -Acute Symptoms- Penetrating deep into the bodies of victims, radiation killed cells, diminished the blood generation function of bone marrow, damaged lungs and liver, and inflicted other grave injuries. The initial radiation emitted within a minute of the explosion was lethal as far as 1,000 meters from the hypocenter. Most in that area died within a few days. Many who appeared uninjured developed disorders and died days or months later. Thousands who entered the city to participate in relief activities developed symptoms similar to those resulting from direct exposure. Many died. Immediate effects of radiation poisoning include the destruction of cells, damage to blood - forming organs, impaired immune functions, internal bleeding and loss of hair. A soldier on the verge of death This 21- year -old soldier was exposed in a wooden house 1km from the hypocenter. He was treated for injuries to his back and right abdomen. Two weeks later, his hair fell out, he began bleeding from his gums, purple hemorrhage spots appeared beneath his skin, and he developed a high fever. He died on September 3. Hiroshima September 3, 1945 Ujina Branch of Hiroshima First Army Hospital Photo: Gonichi Kimura Courtesy: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Children who lost their hair Radiation caused these children to lose the hair on their heads. They were then teased and avoided by other children, which caused severe emotional trauma. Many such children died later from acute disorders or aftereffects. Nagasaki Kyushu University Hospital Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum W Mayors for Peace 11 Aftereffects (1) Most acute injuries either killed their victims or healed in 4 to 5 months. The aftereffects, including an obvious increase in leukemia 5 to 6 years after the bombing, have continued to cause serious problems. The most common aftereffects include keloids (abnormally thick scar tissue), cataracts, and leukemia, as well as thyroid, breast, lung and other cancers. Some in -utero survivors were born with microcephaly, an abnormal smallness of the head, often accompanied by mental and developmental disorders. We still have much to learn about the long -term effects of radioactive substances taken into the body. We do know that survivors continue to suffer from the aftereffects of radiation. Keloids Beginning in early 1946, the skin over survivors' burns, which had been considered healed, began to swell. Skin puckered and thickened into keloids, causing extreme physical and emotional pain. A Woman with keloids on her back and arms Only the skin shielded by her shoulder bag was spared from damage. Hiroshima November 13, 1945 Photo: U.S. Army Courtesy: Hiroshima peace Memorial Museum A man with keloids on his face and neck Exposed approximately 1,000 meters from the hypocenter Nagasaki June 1970 Photo: Sakae Murasato Courtesy: Nagasaki Chapter of Japan Realist Photographers Mayon for Peace 12 Mayors for Peace Aftereffects (2) Malignant Neoplasms Radiation is a proven causal factor. In some cases, researchers have reported a direct correlation between distance from the hypocenter or probable radiation absorbed and malignancy rates. Cancers observed and the approximate dates at which significant increases became evident: leukemia (1950); thyroid cancer (1955); breast and lung cancer (1965); multiple myelomas, gastric and colon cancer (1975). Years of Cancer Onset Detonation 10 years 20 years 30 years 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 Latency period Increase suspected Increase observed 1970 1975 1980 Leukemia Thyroid cancer Breast cancer Lung cancer Gastric cancer Colon cancer Multiple myeloma Source: Effects of A -Bomb Rodtarton on the Human Body, 1992 1 A man with skin cancer on his right hip Exposed 1,200 meters from the hypocenter Hiroshima Courtesy: Hiroshima Red Cross and Atomic -bomb Survivors Hospital EDMayors for Peace 13 NUCLEAR DARKNESS, NUCLEAR FAMINE'' The destruction of cities in a limited, regional nuclear war would kill or injure nearly all inhabitants of those cities. The enormous firestorms that result would create a smoke layer in the upper atmosphere that would block sunlight and destroy much of the protective ozone layer, allowing extreme levels of harmful ultraviolet light (UV -B) to reach the surface of the Earth. Beneath the smoke, loss of sunlight would produce average surface temperatures colder than any experienced during the last 1,000 years. Crops would fail, and humanity would face an unprecedented global famine. n Absolute Evil The intolerable harm nuclear weapons hold in store for humanity - -,ti r' • NUCLEAR WINTER An all -out global nuclear war would directly kill or injure vast numbers of human beings. Nearly all would suffer from radiation and its aftereffects. Millions of tons of radioactive soot and dust would block sunlight, lowering global temperatures to ice age levels. In such a nuclear winter, crops would fail for at least ten years. Even after those tens years, the climate would remain abnormal, and radioactive fallout would rain death and disease from the skies, bringing most large animals, including humans, to the brink of extinction. Where is the "victory" in universal suicide? Reference: Scientific American January 2010 (Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon) Science December 1983 (Richard P. Turco, Owen Brian Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan) Mayors for Peace 14 Mayors for Peace - Cities Protecting Citizens- [Mayors for Peace] Mayors for Peace, founded in 1982 by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, calls on cities around the world to work in solidarity for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons. We are an official NGO accredited by the Economic and Social Council of the UN. [A Network of Cities Protecting Citizens] No city can prepare an adequate "first response" to a nuclear attack. The only way to protect citizens is to make sure the attack never happens. Mayors for Peace insists that "Cities Are Not Targets(CANT)," and over 5,000 mayors around the world agree. Is your mayor a member? You can find out at: http: / /www.mayorsforpeace.org CANT petition forms on display at UN Headquarters (March 2011, New York) [Member Cities] 5,136 member cities in 153 countries and regions (As of March 1, 2012) [Membership by Country] BELGIUM 378 `h-.7 Member Cities _ Over 500 _ 400 -499 300 -399 100 -199 1 -99 0 LS All municipalities on Mayors for Peace (As of March 1, 2012) C/ Mayors for Peace 15 The 2020 Vision —An Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons— Working in close cooperation with cities, citizens, and NGOs around the world, Mayors for Peace pursues our 2020 Vision, the total abolition of nuclear weapons by 2020. Since 2010, the primary focus of the 2020 Vision Campaign has been a nuclear weapons convention (NWC), a treaty prohibiting the manufacture, possession and use of nuclear weapons. We are working now in the following ways to generate a global movement demanding that such a treaty be concluded without delay. 1) Instilling a sense of urgency and stimulating momentum toward convening a high -level meeting of governments and experts in Hiroshima concurrent with the 8th General Conference of Mayors for Peace in August 2013. 2) Asking our more than 5,000 member cities to hold A -bomb exhibitions in 2012. 3) Conducting a global signature drive calling for an immediate start to nuclear weapons convention negotiations. 4) Strengthening ties and collaboration with like- minded NGOs, peace initiatives, cities and national governments around the world. Our RD' uclear- Vdeapon -Free V'lorld i _ .city,Sf* ,JA �. l'. r �,., >n �u�o 1SIOU c ' mdvir- Weuoon.17 lef \`(rld EAR FREE NUCLEAR FREE p*CIFIC Peace March during the NPT Review Conference in NY (May 2010). CITIES ARE NO .r T- RCS S CITES NESONTPAS DES C(BL Campaigning in Paris Please support our campaign to abolish nuclear weapons by: 1) Contacting your mayor and urging him /her to attend the Mayors for Peace General Conference in 2013. 2) Contacting the leader of your country and urging him /her to visit Hiroshima and support a nuclear weapons convention. 3) Asking your city to join Mayors for Peace and your organization to get involved in the 2020 Vision Campaign. 4) Going to https: / /www.mayorsforpeace.org, signing our petition, then sending the URL to all your friends. For more information about the campaign and how you can take part, please Hiroshima's Mayor Matsui and high school students gathering visit: www.mayorsforpeace.org or www.2020visioncampaign.org signatures downtown nvagac emnaAK +ct` ® Mayors for haw 16 Hiroshima Today Near the hypocenter in Hiroshima Immediately after the bombing Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Peace Memorial Park 1111111111111111111111,11111101111111111111111111011111 =7;;- ZWILL 0 Mayors for Peace Nagasaki Today Near the hypocenter in Nagasaki Immediately after the bombing Nagasaki Port Mayors Jar Peace 18 Mayors for Peace Secretariat c /o: Peace and International Solidarity Promotion Division, Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation TEL: +81 -82- 242 -7821 FAX: +81- 82- 242 -7452 E -mail: mayorcon @pcf.city.hiroshima jp URL: http: / /www.mayorsforpeace .org/english /index.html