@80 days until Hiroshima Summit: Peace Watch Tower
Feb. 28, 2023
by Yu Kawakami, Staff Writer
In the lobby of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a clock that shows the number of days since the last nuclear test was conducted. This clock, called the Peace Watch Tower, was donated on August 6, 2001, by a non-profit organization made up of graduates of Shudo High School in central Hiroshima. The cogwheel device in the lower part of the tower expresses the fear that the humankind is headed for destruction through war and nuclear development.
The museum has reset the number of days 28 times since installation. The longest was 959 days between North Korea’s first nuclear test in October 2006 and the second in May 2009. When the United States conducted a subcritical nuclear test in September 2002 after a short 28-day interval between tests, the number was reset to zero. The most recent test was the subcritical nuclear test conducted in September 2021 under the administration of President Joe Biden. Now the number of days has exceeded 500.
(Originally published on February 28, 2023)
In the lobby of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a clock that shows the number of days since the last nuclear test was conducted. This clock, called the Peace Watch Tower, was donated on August 6, 2001, by a non-profit organization made up of graduates of Shudo High School in central Hiroshima. The cogwheel device in the lower part of the tower expresses the fear that the humankind is headed for destruction through war and nuclear development.
The museum has reset the number of days 28 times since installation. The longest was 959 days between North Korea’s first nuclear test in October 2006 and the second in May 2009. When the United States conducted a subcritical nuclear test in September 2002 after a short 28-day interval between tests, the number was reset to zero. The most recent test was the subcritical nuclear test conducted in September 2021 under the administration of President Joe Biden. Now the number of days has exceeded 500.
(Originally published on February 28, 2023)
