Tadatoshi Akiba / Mayors for Peace, Hiroshima, Japan
2007 in Salzburg
Mayors for Peace was founded in 1982 on the initiative of the then Mayor of Hiroshima, Takeshi Araki. Since then, the city organization has been fighting against nuclear weapons with appeals, declarations, signature lists, pictures, exhibitions and scientific analyses, showing the nuclear powers that even the threat of the bomb is a crime.