The Atomic Mirror Logo Pilgrimages

The Atomic Mirror organises and documents international, multifaith pilgrimages to sacred and nuclear sites in the US, Japan, and Britain.

Atomic Mirror Pilgrims at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, Britain, April 26, 1996. Photo by Janet BloomfieldATOMIC MIRROR PILGRIMAGE 1996

Timed to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Chernobyl the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage 1996 completed its journey safely and successfully at Coventry Cathedral on April 28th having begun at Canterbury on Good Friday, April 5th.
Atomic Mirror pilgrims at Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Nation, in 1995.ATOMIC MIRROR PILGRIMAGE 1995

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuclear Age, Yoshi Tsukishita, a hibakusha and calligrapher from Hiroshima, Japan, returned the fire of the atomic bomb to its origin at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The rest of us, twenty-five members of the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage, watched as Yoshi presented the flame he had carried from the Peace Park in Hiroshima to Leroy Apodaca, Deputy Program Director for Public Affairs at Los Alamos. The eternal flame in the Peace Park was lit on August 6, 1945 and will never be extinguished until all nuclear weapons are abolished from the earth.