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Dawn of the Peace Movement - click to read rest of article
In the decade following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, memories of the catastrophe were still fresh in people’s minds. For two-thirds of this period, Japan was under U.S.-led occupation. As a result of the oppression engendered by the occupation, with its deft decrees, the peace movement in Japan arose, led mainly by labor organizations. It was a time of bitter struggle, hardly the dawn of a peace movement. Still, even in those early days, voices in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima did more than utter wishes and prayers, they spoke out against the atomic bombing. This history, which served as a prologue for the subsequent campaigns against A- and H-bombs, should not be forgotten.

Hiroshima by John Hershey in The New Yorker
Mayors for Peace - led by the Mayor of Hiroshima, Mayors around the World United to Promote a Nuclear Free World
50th Anniversary: Pugwash Peace Movement
Dr. Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, on "Nuclear-Free World from the Cities" July 7, 2007

Embattled Cooperation(s): Peaceful Atoms, Pacifist Physicists, and Partisans of Peace in the Early Cold War (1947-1957)

The “Göttingen Manifesto”