This week Peace House celebrates the 90th Birthday of Hideko Tamura Snider, who has worked tirelessly as a peacemaker for more than five decades to support a nuclear free world. An author, innovator and healer for a world broken from the use of senseless violence – Hideko continues to remind us about the dangers and impacts of earth shattering nuclear weapons.
At ten years old, Hideko witnessed the world around her fall into ruins as a result of the US bombing of Hiroshima. She wrote her story in detail describing life before, during and after the bombing she survived in a book titled One Sunny Day. A revised edition of the title was recently published by Oregon State University Press and can be ordered directly from the publisher.
“It began as a chronicle for my children who never knew their grandparents or the home I once came from,” wrote Tamura Snider about the book. “It grew into an article published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1995, and from that into a book published in 1996.”
The new edition of the book includes a new epilogue that describes Hideko’s work through One Sunny Day Initiatives, an organization dedicated to a nuclear weapons-free world.
More information about Hideko Tamura Snider, her peace work and books can be found on the One Sunny Day Initiatives website.
