“The statue fragment will be brought to New York later this month for a conference to review the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the nuclear weapons were developed.”
By: KYODO NEWS | November 2, 2026 kyodonews.net
NAGASAKI – The Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki and others on Monday unveiled plans to bring the surviving head of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that was destroyed in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki to the United States for the first time in 16 years.
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It is hoped the head will be put on public display at the U.N. headquarters and in Los Alamos.
It will be brought to the United States by a 15-member group consisting of Catholic clergy from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha. Among them will be Mitsuaki Takami, the 80-year-old archbishop emeritus of Nagasaki, whose mother was exposed to the atomic bomb while pregnant with him.