Tag: Hiroshima

  • Nation & World

    A living witness to nuclear dystopia

    Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a nuclear disarmament advocate, shares her experience.

    7 minutes
    Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing,
  • Nation & World

    Reflections of an envoy

    During a Harvard visit, Caroline Kennedy recalls her years as ambassador to Japan, including President Obama’s trip to Hiroshima.

    4 minutes
    Caroline Kennedy
  • Nation & World

    Reflections on a nuclear mission

    Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Nobel laureate Roy Glauber reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first atomic bomb.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Memories of Armageddon

    With haunting images, Japanese artist and survivor Junko Kayashige depicts the horrors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an exhibition of oil paintings on view at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Monroe C. Gutman Library.

    5 minutes