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The number of the participants
9,422 
We are now attaching messages to our dove balloons and are no longer accepting new messages. These balloons will be flown on ropes (not released) on August 5th at 8 AM, in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima city to commemorate the 60th anniversary.  QR code |
[Japanese | Spanish | Greek | German | Russian | French] Thank you for visiting the Wings of Peace project site.
People in 156 countries and territories have sent 9,422 messages to this project. The messages will be printed on feather-shaped cards and put on wings of dove balloons. The dove balloons will be flown on ropes (not released) on August 5th at 8 AM, in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima city to commemorate the 60th anniversary. They will also be sent to Prime Minister of Japan, Koizumi Junichiro and Governor of Aomori prefecture, Mimura Shingo. Visit our website on August 5th evening (Japan standard time) and you will see doves fly in the sky of Hiroshima, held in hands of victims of A-bomb, teens from Netherlands, and Greenpeace staff from all over the world. Why are we doing this?Sixty years after atomic bombs devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, help Greenpeace rid the world of nuclear weapons forever - with balloons. In 1945, just two nuclear weapons caused the deaths of more than 300,000 people. In 2005, more than 30,000 nuclear weapons threaten us all. The world's leaders are meeting in September for a UN summit. 9,422 messages were sent to tell them we do not want another city to suffer the fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We will help our leaders understand that clouds of balloons over our cities look a lot better than mushroom ones! |
