Three major cities in the UK and Ireland will be hosting the Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb exhibition this summer, and it will be on display for visitors to the London Olympics. The exhibition was kindly donated to the City of Manchester in November 2010 by the Mayor of Nagasaki on the 30th anniversary of Manchester’s famous ‘nuclear weapons free city’ declaration. It has travelled across the UK and Ireland over the past 2 years. It will be hosted in Ireland’s capital Dublin, at its Central Library from July 15th – 31st. It then transfers to London in time for the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the city’s hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibition will be held in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the ‘east end’ of London and one of five London Councils hosting events within the Olympic programme. The exhibition will take place in Tower Hamlets Town Hall from August 3rd – 18th. Following this it will travel north to the Northern England city of Newcastle, where it will be on display in Newcastle Central Library from August 23rd – 30th. Other member cities have booked the exhibition for later in the year.
>Nagasaki-donated exhibition is now on a tour across the UK (Uploaded on March 18, 2011)