※この作品は、全て英語で書かれています。
被爆証言集『女性たちのヒロシマ』『男たちのヒロシマ』『語りつぐナガサキ』『家族から見た「8・6」』（いずれも和英併記）の4冊から、英語部分だけを1冊に凝縮し世界に発信。巻末にヒロシマ・ナガサキの被害と核兵器の現状を伝える資料を加えた。戸田城聖創価学会第二代会長による「原水爆禁止宣言」（1957.9.8）から60年を記念して発刊。

“Each and every scene was hell itself.” “Human beings do not need atomic bombs.” - Shigeru Nonoyama, exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima at the age of 15

Over 50 hibakusha - victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 - give vivid testimony of living through the nightmare of those fateful days and their hellish aftermath. Today, more than 70 years later, it is a challenge to keep alive an understanding of the true nature of nuclear weapons and their human toll. This book is a unique resource for those engaged in advocacy and education for the sake of peace.

Accounts by women and men from Hiroshima are presented in separate sections, enabling the reader to gain a uniquely gendered perspective of the different ways the bombing affected survivors’ lives.

These firsthand accounts give a chilling picture of the horror that nuclear weapons inflict. Survivors describe disfiguring and agonizing burns, and how radiation exposure causes pain, anxiety and discriminatory attitudes that last a lifetime.
Editor's Note

Foreword

Part 1
Hiroshima August 6,1945：For a Brilliant, Smiling Future
（Testimonies of women from Hiroshima）

Part 2
Hiroshima August 6,1945：A Silence Broken
（Testimonies of men from Hiroshima）

Part 3
Nagasaki August 9,1945：Telling the Story of Nagasaki Seventy Summers Later
（Testimonies of men and women from Nagasaki）

Part 4
Families Look at August 6,1945：Ten Accounts to Pass Forward
（Testimonies of families from Hiroshima）

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