At a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan, Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba announced that the 2020 Vision Campaign of Mayors for Peace is successful in preparing for the Decisive Decade for Nuclear Disarmament. Mayor Akiba, also President of Mayors for Peace, declared, "An ambitious membership drive which begun last January has come to fruition: we now have 2,028 Mayors in 127 countries rallying for the 2020 Vision!". Over 400 new members joined Mayors for Peace during 2007.

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Civilians all over the world are threatened. "Never again" would a nuclear weapon be used, it was said after the bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet mankind does not seem to learn from its mistakes. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985) have always made clear there is no medical answer to a nuclear bomb explosion, as was proven in 1945. Therefore from its inception in 1982, IPPNW supported Mayors for Peace. Mayors for Peace continues to help mayors all over the globe to become active within their communities and to make clear to governments that serious progress is necessary to prevent a nuclear holocaust.

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On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 you killed a man who was apparently an obstacle to your criminal enterprises. We wonder if you have any idea what you have taken from the world. Mayor Iccho Itoh was born only two weeks before the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States on August 9, 1945. Defined by that monstrous act of war along with the other hibakusha of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Mayor Itoh devoted his life to making sure that nuclear weapons would never be used again. Without rancor or ill will, he quietly and persistently went about the business of campaigning for the elimination of nuclear weapons from the world.

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The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced the massive, profound, long-lasting horror and trauma of atomic bombing on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. On our behalf, they tasted the hellish end of the world that nuclear weapons hold in store, and for sixty years the survivors have done everything in their power to communicate a single message: it must never happen again. Will they succeed in awakening the world from its insane nuclear trance? Or will the past be forgotten, and repeated.

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In The Netherlands some 25 Mayors have become a member or strong supporter of the Mayors for Peace call for a nuclear weapon free world. A strong instrument to draw attention to this campaign has been the 'Mayors for Peace exhibition' . This mobile exhibition shows the dangers of nuclear weapons from Hiroshima till this very moment and what action mayors all over the world take to prevent these dangers. Cities like Groningen, Utrecht, The Hague, Amersfoort, Tilburg and Alkmaar are just a few examples of cities where the exhibition was or will be shown in Town halls or libraries.

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