On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people. Not among that 140,000 was Takashi Teramoto, who survived the bombing and will speak at Millsaps College on Thursday, Jan. 24.
The lecture, which will take place at 7 p.m. in the Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall, is free and open to the public, and will also feature Steven Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. For more information, contact Lola Williamson at 601-974-1333.
In cooperation with the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Millsaps College will also hold an atomic bomb exhibition. The exhibit will feature posters of the cities and the bombs’ aftermath and will hang in the second floor lobby of the Ford Academic Complex (outside the recital hall) from Jan. 14-28.
Teramoto and Leeper will also speak in the Holmes Hall Auditorium at Tougaloo College on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 1 p.m.
