SOCIAL REACH
Put your marker on the map and help New Zealand Red Cross
build support for a ban on the use of nuclear weapons.
Thanks for putting yourself on the map, now see what it would really be like if a nuclear weapon was used where you live. Use the controls below to simulate a nuclear blast.
We're making it happen
Check out who's joined the social explosion to make nuclear weapons the target. Join now
Hiroshima,
1945
Tens of thousands were instantly killed when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Five years later nearly 500,000 people had died from the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
Even today, survivors still struggle with increased rates of cancer and
chronic disease.
Junko Morimoto was a happy 13-year-old living in Hiroshima when the nuclear bomb was dropped on her city in 1945. Junko told Red Cross her moving story of surviving the blast and rebuilding her life, having lost everything.
"Surrounded by screams, it was as if I was in hell. I was in shock with scenes around me. The whole area was destroyed. I was horrified. I felt nothing but fear at the time."
Why should
we care?
New Zealand may have breathed a sigh
after the passing of the Nuclear Free Disarmament and Arms Control Act, but 25 years later our awareness has wilted. The anti-nuclear debate has fizzled out, but the global threat remains.
New Zealand Red Cross wants to reignite the debate and educate a new generation of New Zealanders on the catastrophic consequences of these weapons, and the real dangers inherent in their existence.
Nuclear weapons wreak incalculable humanitarian and environmental suffering, the effects of which last for generations. The fact they exist means that every day we live with the real danger that they could be used, whether accidentally or intentionally; it’s time for New Zealanders to reconnect with the cause, and for a whole new generation to get involved. Together we can make nuclear weapons the target.
We need to raise the awareness of our young people of the catastrophic consequences of these weapons, and the real dangers inherent in their continuing existence.
Our mandate
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is the world's largest humanitarian organisation.
We have a specific mandate to educate the public and work with governments on international humanitarian law, sometimes known as the laws of war.
We'll take your vote to the international stage
We will ask that our government continues to be a global leader on this issue and work with like-minded States toward creating an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons, creating an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Thousands of people are supporting our campaign
and making nuclear weapons the target.
Meet just some of these people and learn why they voted YES to ban the use of nuclear weapons.
Shigeko Sasamori
Roy Sefton
Lizzie Chan
