Setsuko thurlow biography of barack
She has spent decades describing her experience as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
This letter, by Hiroshima survivor and NAPF Advisory Council member Setsuko Thurlow, was delivered to President Obama via Ben Rhodes on June 6,.
A living witness to nuclear dystopia
First came a flash. Thirteen-year-old Setsuko Nakamura felt as if she were drifting skyward.
And then darkness.
Seventy-four years later Setsuko still remembers the moment of detonation after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first of two exploded over the island nation, a deployment that proved so horrendous the weapons have never been used since.
“That very morning I was at the military headquarters, not at the school,” she told a rapt audience at Harvard Law School on Tuesday as part of the University’s Worldwide Week.
Instead of being in class on Aug. 6, 1945, Setsuko was reporting for her first day of work, as one of the thousands of students the government mobilized to provide cheap labor during the wartime shortage.
Setsuko, who now uses her married last name Thurlow, and about 30 other girls were assigned to help the army decode top-secret messages.
They were about a mile from ground zero and on the building’s sec
