'Remember Hiroshima Nagasaki' badge

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'Remember Hiroshima Nagasaki' badge

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This badge features the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol with a paper origami crane. Cranes are significant in Japanese culture. Thousands of folded paper cranes are created every year for Hiroshima, and are invested with their makers' hopes and prayers for peace. At the end of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Both cities were devastated. At least 70,000 people were killed instantly in the Hiroshi...

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Image

Date created

1980s

Creator

EYP Ltd

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1412727

Related subjects

Cranes (Birds) / peace / paper / ink / plastic / metal / badges / Protest movements / Nuclear weapons testing / New Zealand / Ronald Smith

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