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Saturday on the civil war, general william shermans atlanta campaign. Sunday night a look at election laws and Supreme Court of bush versus gore. Find our Television Schedule at csp csp cspan. Org and let us know about the programs youre watching. Or email us at comments cspan. Org. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. Next, atomic bomb survivors from hiroshima and nagasaki talk about the physical and emotional affects that ended world war 2 in the pacific. President trumans grandson also participated in the discussion. Its about an hour and ten minutes. Its a very exciting time to o Nuclear Weapons because there have been some significant changes. The martial islands last week filed a suit in the International Court of justice to against the Nine Countries that have Nuclear Weapons for their failure to negotiate in good faith to abolish Nuclear Weapons in the world. Theres also been two International Conferences recently where 120 citizen groups have called for a complete ban of Nuclear Weapons for humanitarian and environmental reasons. They call for a ban because Nuclear Weapons breed fear among nations. They dont build security. Thech t they have the capacity to destroy all life forms on earth. All complex life forms on earth. They divert funds from health care, education, social services. Finally, before i introduced our guests, id like you to close our eyes for one moment. Just close your eyes and think of all of the people, places, things you love most in our world. Close your eyes for a minute. What is it that you most love in this world . Imagine that all of that could be destroyed by Nuclear Weapons. Thats why we are here to make sure that that never happens. So its my honor its my privilege to introduce our honored guests. Our first is bclifto Clifton Truman daniel. Would you like oto come up. [ applause ] he is the grandson of harry truman, the only person to order the deployment of Nuclear Weapons in the time of war. I believe that your grandfather is very proud of the work that youre doing. You also will hear from yamada from hiroshima. He is a shining example of dedication since the atomic bombing shes devoted her life to working in japan to assist atomic life survivors with a Lifelong Health consequences of radioactive fall out and worked on the global stage for Nuclear Abolition and is speaking at the United Nations today. Its also my honor to introduce michio. Plauz la [ applause ] he has come to us via a Japanese Organization that travels the world looking for peace and environmental justice. In addition, it raises money and gives material aid to people affected by natural disasters. [ applause ] we believe that you have the right oto know about the world that youen live in and that all people should commit themselves to abolishing Nuclear Weapons that could destroy life on earth as we know it. This is why we do the work that we do. Go to the web site of the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Icanw. Org. Take action now. So lets get to work. Our first step is to hear what our honored guests have to say. [ applause ] thank you, robert. Good morning. Nice to see you both again. Despite my background. Despite my lineage, i learned about the atomic bombings the same way you all have through history teaching and history books. My grandfather did not speak to me at the decision. I think at the time it was because i was very young. He died when i was 15 years old. Its a hard subject to discuss. Also, i dont think that he would have told me anything differently than he would have told you or that he would have said publically that he did say publically about his reasons. I learned about it the same way you did. In my history books, the bombings were about a page. A page, page and a half. Landscape at herb oesh, hiroshima or nagasaki. There was not much about the human costs. There was no there wasnt any humanity in that history book. In 1998, when i was working as a journalist in North Carolina, we moved from North Carolina to chicago. The following year in the spring of 1999, my son wesley brought home a book from school. He was in fifth grade at the time. He brought home a book, sidacho and the thousand paper crane. Any of you familiar with that story . He was a real little girl who gived in hiroshima. She was 2 years old when the bomb exploded. She and her family surfivived almost unscathed. She developed leukemia nine some versions of the legends say you are granted a long life. In either case she wanted both. She wanted to live. She folded more than a thousand paper cranes. She folded about 1,400. Unfortunately that did not [bhe. She died in 1955, shes 12 years old. Within three years, her friends and family had raised the money to build a statute to her and all the children killed, wounded and sickened by the atomic bomb. It stands in the peace park her holding up a giant paper crane. Each year people from around the world leave paper cranes at that memorial. They leave them all over hiroshima or nagasaki, at her memorial alone i think they live about 10,000 tons of paper cranes every year