The Fast for Life was an international movement for nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated....

 which culminated in August 1983 when 13 people fasted in several cities from 6 August, anniversary of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 nuclear bombing.

These were followed by thousands people which fasted a few days, and important supporting demonstrations.

People stopped their fast after 40 days. In France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, people were received by President of Republic, François Mitterrand

François Mitterrand

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...

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The direct resultat of this movement was not very clear, but it created an important dynamisation of antinuclear movements. Many actions have used this fast as a reference, specially in France, the Walk for Life, in 1984.

The International Fast For Life was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

List of cities and fasting people

Paris

Paris

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• Solange Fernex
  Solange Fernex
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• Michel Nodet
• Didier Mainguy
• Jacky Guyon

San Francisco

• André Larivière
  André Larivière
  André Larivière is an ecologist and anti-nuclear activist from Quebec, Canada. He has lived in Europe since 1986 and was a leading speaker for the French Sortir du nucléaire network...
  
  
• Dorothy Granada
• Charles Gray
  Charles Gray
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• Kohjima

Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

• Jo Jordan

Toronto

Toronto

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• Brian Burch
• Karen Harrison
  Karen Harrison
  Karen Harrison is the first woman in Britain to be appointed as a train driver, during which time she was an active trade unionist and political campaigner.- Early years :...