Summit 2010

August 6, 1945, the Japanese City of Hiroshima all butvanished in a fiery blast hotter than the core of the sun. Asa result of this event, the name “Hiroshima”, representsalmost everywhere on our planet the utter destructivenessof nuclear weapons.

Hiroshima has come to represent one of our most basicfears, that of widespread annihilation, and one of our mostbasic challenges, that of survival of Human beings. Thebombing of Hiroshima opened the door to our collectiveunderstanding that our survival is not assured, due both tothe power of our nuclear weapon technologies and ourwillingness to justify their use.

How Hiroshima is remembered – his Legacy – is of critical importance in shaping our understanding of its meaningand our motivation to support or oppose nuclear weapons. This is the reason why we considered particularlyimportant to dedicate the XI World Summit to the topic “The Legacy of Hiroshima: a World without NuclearWeapons”. The Summit has represented a great opportunity to reaffirm our common goal of progressing toward anuclear-weapons free world. In particular, we have examined the devastation that nuclear weapons might cause;the implementation of existing nuclear weapons treaties; the challenge of non-proliferation; the threat of nuclearterrorism; and the role that Cities and Civil Society can play.

- PROGRAM

- FINAL DECLARATION

- OFFICIAL MESSAGES TO THE SUMMIT

- PARTICIPANTS’ STATEMENTS

- PARTICIPANTS

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Frederik Willem De Klerk
• Lech Walesa
• Mohamed ElBaradei
• Mairead Corrigan Maguire
• Shirin Ebadi
• Jody Williams
• Thomas Stelzer (Assistant UN Secretary-General)
• Sergei Ordzhonikidze (UN Undersecretary General)
• Tibor Toth (Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission CTBTO)
• Johan Cels (UNHCR)
• Morten Hovda (ILO)
• Alexandre Liebeskind (ICRC)
• Tadateru Konoè (IFRC)
• Vappu Taipale (IPPNW)
• Hilt Bjorn (IPPNW)
• Jayantha Dhanapala (PUGWASH)
• Alyn Ware (IPB)
• Shan Cretin (AFSC)
• Arlene Kelly (AFSC)
• Nobuko Kurosaki (MSF)
• Salil Shetty (AI)
• Mariko Fujita (AI)