Peace is not silence

Peace is not silence

In Hiroshima, peace lives in monuments, museums, and school curricula. It’s woven into the city’s identity and offered to the world as a symbol of recovery, resilience, and moral clarity born from catastrophe. Every summer, children study the horrors of nuclear war, listen to the stories of the hibakusha (nuclear weapon survivors), and are taught that peace must be protected at all costs. In practice, however, peace here is often treated as some…