A Report of the Medical Investigation into the Victims of the Atomic Bombing. By Kyoto Physicians' Association Appealing for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Edited and translated by Hidenori and Fusami Sugimine. 3rd edition 1998. Fifty-Four Years Later.
Time flows, memory fades, facts become weathered.
World War II only lives in the memory of people who are older than fifty-six, therefore at least half of the people on earth have no memory at all of the day an entire city was destroyed in a matter of seconds. Only those who were there can have an accurate memory of the horror of the event. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War held their 9th World Congress in Hiroshima and pledged themselves to work for the abolition of nuclear, chemical or biologic instruments of destruction. Possession of such weapons is a crime against humanity. The threat of a future nuclear war has been considerably lessened in recent times, but the threat has not entirely vanished.