{"id":2015,"date":"2009-08-03T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2018-10-29T01:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T20:19:41","slug":"never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/never-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Never again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hiroshima, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n

For those involved in the peace movement around the globe, thoughts this week turn once again to the horrors of Monday, August 6, 1945\u2014when at 08:15 the first nuclear weapon ever deployed on human beings (a bomb named Little Boy<\/em>) was dropped on Hiroshima<\/a> by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay<\/em>. Three days later, at 11:02 on Wednesday, August 9, Nagasaki<\/a> was the target of the world\u2019s first plutonium bomb (named Fat Man<\/em>) dropped by the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Bockscar<\/em>, flown by the crew of 393rd Squadron.<\/p>\n

In 2005, I was one of 24 designers invited to contribute posters for Lest We Forget: Canadian Designers on War<\/em>, an initiative marking the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (I\u2019ve posted on that previously, here<\/a>). Michael Surtees attended that show opening at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton\u2014see his flickr<\/em> photo gallery from the evening here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image above: a moving poster designed by the late great Yusaku Kamekura<\/a>, considered by many to be the father of graphic design in Japan. The poster \u201cdepicts a cluster of multicoloured burning butterflies falling from the sky, caught in the flash of an atomic blast, their wings alight with hot red and orange flames burning like streaks of blood from their delicate wings\u2014the beauty and grace of the image serves to undermine the horror and tragedy of war.\u201d Hiroshima Appeals is a poster series that appears annually, initiated by Japan Graphic Designers Association<\/a> for the Hiroshima International Cultural Foundation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hiroshima, Japan For those involved in the peace movement around the globe, thoughts this week turn once again to the horrors of Monday, August 6, 1945\u2014when at 08:15 the first nuclear weapon ever deployed on human beings (a bomb named Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7,9,12,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16319,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}