Fr. I saw him at Senzatmoica (derives from "without" and "atomic"), a sensitizing campaign against nuclear war whose sites are in over 80 Italian cities. It's affiliated to Soka Gakkai, a buddhist community founded by Tsunesaburou Makiguchi. Josei Toda succeded next at the presidency, and today we have Daisaku Ikeda.
The exhibit at St. John in Lateran is open from March 21 to May 18.
Try not to write an Italy-related topic when?
Waiting for the bus in front of the UN Square in Eur district.
You see the palaces are meticulously squared because they date back to the fascist era. The dux was a sucker about perfection (since Germany influenced fascist Italy), and attempted to create a State beyond nationalist and to bring back most of the Roman culture (i.e. the salute or the lictors fashes weapons). Also, names inside textbooks were always "Italianized" (like Giovanni Sebastiano Bach💀).
Obviously it was dictatorial and imperialistic bullcrap.
We arrived at half past ten! I think the church structure is used to host the temporary museum.
The numerous guides admitted they weren't professionals, but simply interested volonteers. I feel sorry for not understanding the name of the one we followed, because she stayed very nice for the rest of the visit just like every other staff.
The start is a bunch of seats in front of hibakusha (被爆者) testimonies replays, witnesses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's nuclear incidents.
TV is in the bottom of image.
The first hibakusha presented of the tour is Setsuko Thurlow, a woman who cried of joy after hearing that 68 countries ratified the TPNW - Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - as of January 22, 2021.
Following up was the VR experience: reminiscent narration on the feelings about the incidents, over urban daily ambiences of Japan, crowded but respectfully silent.
Suddenly, a nuclear white lightbeam with a low sound similar to an earthquake's.
Sadako and the 1,000 paper cranes, Shinichi and the tricycle, the boy carrying his dead brother on his back, with a forceful expression in front of the crematorium... are some examples of the 1 milion people who assisted it, dead and survivors.
Then it showed all ruins and debris on the ground, but the dull buildings' foundations still stood up.
Everything is remembered through the honorific monuments in parks and the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima.
Probably it's just me but when I take off a VR headset I need some moments to regain to conscience, since I've tried to wear few. The effort of providing projections of Japanese places is very high and the experience was pretty realistic (thank you Mr obvious), though the quality made it seem watching something recorded on camera from another screen.
The tour continued walking around several informative panels explained, which are in the image dumps.
Here's Oppenheimer! It was no clickbait.
image dumps
(prepare for device destruction, around 2MB each)
⬆️"Remember your humanity, forget the rest"
⬆️Historical nuclear tests: when and where
⬆️How many nuclear weapons are there in the world?
⬆️How much do States spend in nuclear weapons?
⬇️Polls - SÌ = Yes, NON SO = I'm unsure, NO = No
⬆️Should Italy should be one of the first countires in NATO to ratify the TPNW even if it might create a form of pressure with the USA against this choice?
⬆️Because of the fact that various American nuclear tests are localised on the Italian territory, do you think these tests should be removed from Italy?
⬆️Italy is aquiring a fighter bomber equipment on F-35 transport and launch nuclear tests. Do you think the aircrafts should have a nuclear capacity?
⬆️I take responsibility
⬆️It's necessary and urgent to disarm the "armed reasoning"
⬆️TPNW: a milestone in human history
⬆️Making peace by doing war?
⬆️"Remember your humanity, forget the rest"
⬆️Historical nuclear tests: when and where
⬆️How many nuclear weapons are there in the world?
⬆️How much do States spend in nuclear weapons?
⬇️Polls - SÌ = Yes, NON SO = I'm unsure, NO = No
⬆️Should Italy should be one of the first countires in NATO to ratify the TPNW even if it might create a form of pressure with the USA against this choice?
⬆️Because of the fact that various American nuclear tests are localised on the Italian territory, do you think these tests should be removed from Italy?
⬆️Italy is aquiring a fighter bomber equipment on F-35 transport and launch nuclear tests. Do you think the aircrafts should have a nuclear capacity?
⬆️I take responsibility
⬆️It's necessary and urgent to disarm the "armed reasoning"
⬆️TPNW: a milestone in human history
⬆️Making peace by doing war?
Well you can have the hol' museum saved on your phone because it's an ant compared to your usual Louvre or MoMA. In fact, a friend who visited today pictured EVERY panel for his final short middle school essay. museum piracy could be a thing
The last part is a short tunnel and just a microphone inside it. The words you pronounce are trascribed on a screen at the start of the museum.
I'll leave the poem Hiroshima by Hiromu Morishita, written beside the entrance of that tunnel. I can't find any version online so
here the translation,
Look carefully with your eyes. Here something that didn't have to happened. Here something irreparable still persists. Here the signs of our end could soon appear. Don't watch through only one eye. Don't watch neither through your arms, nor with your head. Watch instead through the heart of a person who resists to desperation.