(Photo: Ed Hedemann / WRL)

NEW YORK -- August 7, 2010 -- Tompkins Square Park. It was an unusually pleasant summer day for an especially unpleasant subject -- 65 years since the United States unapologetically -- to this day -- unleashed nuclear weapons on the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, unilaterally beginning the nuclear arms race. This exhibit, which the War Resisters League produced for the 50th anniversary of the bombings, immediate drew the attention of park denizens as well as many passersby. While some took fleeting notice, others spent a lot of time reading every single panel in the exhibit. Though there were a number of impromptu discussions and some debates, mostly people took leaflets and other literature and looked in silence.

(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN)

Frida Berrigan, a long time War Resister, worked the event. She told NLN that "It was a lovely, hot afternoon. Not unlike the day on which the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Passersby were asked to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to spend a few minutes with the War Resisters League's '65 Years of Nuclearism' exhibit, and take literature. A number of people read the whole exhibit, and were happy to take our materials. I think that our presence there served as an important reminder to people out to enjoy their Saturday."

(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN)