Exhibitions

exhibitions

The Peace Foundation has helped to create and promote a number of exhibitions relating to issues of peace and conflict. Some of these can be borrowed for display purposes in schools and libraries. Others, such as the Gandhi exhibition, can only be shown in museums.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb exhibition available for loan

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition This collection of laminated photographs and text depicts the consequences of the bombings from 1945 through to the international peace initiatives of today. The exhibition aims to promote the total abolition of nuclear weapons through increased knowledge a

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Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Photo Exhibition

The atomic and hydrogen bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 reduced both cities to rubble with heat and shock waves and exposed the residents to deadly radiation. The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, roughly half on the days o

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Gandhi Photo Exhibition

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - known as Mahatma Gandhi by millions of Indians - dedicated his life to a non-violent form of human liberation, and was once quoted as saying, "you might of course say that there can be no non-violent rebellion and there has been none known in history to date. Well, it is

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Depleted Uranium - Children of the Gulf War Exhibition

A Different Nuclear War Children of the Gulf War Exhibition - photos by Takashi Morizumi Depleted uranium is a by-product of the manufacture of nuclear weapons and fuel for nucelar power reactions. Although it contains only a low level of uranium-235, which is required for nuclear fission, it is a r

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