Exhibition to call on the dismantling of nuclear weapons concludes today at Porto City Hall

The "A-Bomb Exhibition, Hiroshima and Nagasaki", which was inaugurated on 2 October, and on display at the main foyer of Porto City Hall, concludes today.

73 years after the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombings, during World War II, the Japanese people want to spread a message of peace and urge nations to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

In the framework of the forty years of twinning, Porto and Nagasaki have created a store of relationships based on the values of friendship and cooperation. Porto City Hall, jointly with Nagasaki City Hall, have organised a display on the topic "A- Bomb Exhibition, Hiroshima and Nagasaki" to commemorate this long-standing and fruitful relationship.

"We wish to contribute to the elimination of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons in the world and I believe this exhibition is also another step to reaching that goal", the National Peace Memory Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims Director enthused.

The exhibit is curated by the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall Museum for the Atomic Bomb Victims, the main focus of the exhibit being the continuous fight to raise awareness on the dangers of nuclear weapons. "We struggle to keep the memory alive as we don't want anybody to suffer what we did", as stated in the exhibition.

The exhibit features posters and photos, written accounts of survivors, audio-visual production regarding the bombings, a nuclear bomb model, objects such as tiles retrieved from the bombing sites, and also messages of peace and paper cranes, to raise awareness on the dangers of nuclear weapons and representing Nagasaki and Hiroshima's prayers for peace.