Nuclear recollections for the long run, 80 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Professor Benoît Pélopidas, founding father of the Nuclear Knowledges programme is among the keynote audio system of the Nobel Peace Conference 2025, to happen on 6 August in Oslo, Norway.

The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo’s work for a world freed from nuclear weapons. The similar day, the world marks 80 years for the reason that nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the testimonies of the survivors as a backdrop, and in a time of worldwide pressure, we focus on at present’s nuclear menace and take a look at options which strengthen the work to make sure that these weapons are by no means used once more.

Visit the conference programme and record of speakers.

This convention is the event to announce the current publication of the Open Access article, “Nuclear memories for the future: Gaps and forgetting in European publics’ understandings of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”, by Sterre van Buuren, Benoît Pélopidas and Alexander Sorg.

On the difficulty on luck and nuclear weapons, we invite you to view the video presentation by Prof. Benoît Pélopidas

The full ERC remaining convention “Nuclear Weapons Choices – Governing Vulnerabilities between Past and Present” is also available online.

Cover picture: A post-war mannequin of ‘Little Boy’, the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945