Watch: Hiroshima Day commemorations

This year, we held our annual Hiroshima Day commemorations online, as we were unable to meet in Tavistock Square. The event was recorded and can be viewed below.

Download the event programme here.

Feedback from our guests:

Sonoda : I am a Fukushima nuclear victim. Thank you to all.

Syeda : Thank you all, 本当にありがとうございます。Great songs!

Frank: Thanks to all, from Leicester.

Min O'R: Thanks to all, from Belfast

Iliyana: Thanks from Scotland and our Peace Cranes exhibition at the Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre

Symon, Peace Pledge Union: Many thanks to all organisers and participants.

Ziba, Raised Voices Choir in London : Thank you Hugh for all these excellent songs.

Katrina A: Thank you everyone who organised and contributed to this great event.

Tim O: Thanks very much to everyone involved.

Cordelia: Thank you to everyone who organised this important event

Gerri: Today is so important to me and this has been a wonderful, spiritual way to remember. With love

Mahzad : Thank you for commemorating this very important historical and humanitarian event

Julie S: Thank you everyone for this event!

Mariette and Jai : Thank you London CND for this event.

Paula S: Thank you for an excellent Zoom x

Ivan R: Thank you for holding this !

Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons

To commemorate Nagasaki day, we have launched an online exhibition 08:15 - 11.02, Time, Memory and Nuclear Weapons.

The exhibition will be live from 9am on 9th August 2020, with works by Graham Ashton, Peter Barton, Steven Feld, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Peter Kennard, Martyl Langsdorf, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti.

This exhibition considers our relationship to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, as we mark the 75th anniversary. Drawing together artists’ responses that hold time and remembrance as central themes, works in film, photography, sound and performance invite the visitor to pause for reflection and connect with these experiences through our everyday encounters with time.

We Shall Overcome

As our Hiroshima and Nagasaki events are being held online this year, we wanted to share the spirit of community so often felt at these events, that helps us to persevere in our mission.

Last year, London CND coordinator Hannah Kemp-Welch represented CND at the World Conference Against A&H bombs in Japan. There, she recorded some of the singing she heard at the conference - attended by 5,000 people from all over the world, committed to campaigning until nuclear weapons are abolished.

Listen to activitsts from around the globe singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ on 6th August 2019 in Hiroshima, and do sing-a-long from home!

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,

We shall overcome someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We shall overcome someday.

We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand,

We'll walk hand in hand someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We'll walk hand in hand someday.

We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace,

We shall live in peace someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We shall live in peace someday.

We are not afraid, we are not afraid,

We are not afraid today;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We are not afraid today.

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,

We shall overcome someday;

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,

We shall overcome someday.