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The CRAM Podcast ~ Extraordinary Ideas Unleashed
From the Ashes: The true story of A-bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow
Note:
A warning that the content contains graphic descriptions of the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
This podcast is one of the most deeply affecting interviews I’ve ever done.
On Aug. 6, 1945, 13 year old Setsuko Thurlow experienced a horror previously unknown to the world – the detonation of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
She miraculously survived while tens of thousands of people including members of her family and the classmates she was with, died. Some estimate the death toll at 140,000. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki causing many more deaths.
At 93 years of age, she is part of a shrinking group of survivors known as “hibakusha.”
Today she’s one of the world’s most prominent nuclear disarmament activists, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of ICAN, an international organization whose mission is the abolishment of nuclear weapons.
Listen to her incredible story and eyewitness account of the day the bomb dropped.
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Setsuko Thurlow is a Japanese Canadian living in Toronto. She is one of the world’s most prominent voices in the nuclear disarmament movement and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of ICAN, an international organization whose mission is the abolishment of nuclear weapons. She is also a “hibakusha,” a term used to describe survivors of the atomic bomb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsuko_Thurlow
For more on Setsuko and her work: https://rise.icanw.org/setsuko_thurlow
SPECIAL THANKS:
Our thanks to Director Susan Strickler and Producer Mitchie Takeuchi for allowing use of the footage from their documentary “The Vow From Hiroshima.”
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