President trumans grandson clifton trueman daniel participated in the discussion. This was put on by the japan society. Its 1 10. Its a very exciting time to be involved in nuclear of all of the Nuclear Weapons because there have been some significant changes. The Marshall Islands filed a suit against the Nine Countries that have Nuclear Weapons for their failure to negotiate in good faith to abolish Nuclear Weapons. Theres been two International Conferenc conferences, one in oslo, norway and one in mexico in which 147 Member States and 120 citizens groups have called for a complete ban of Nuclear Weapons for humanitarian and environmental reasons. They called for a ban because Nuclear Weapons breed fear among nations, they dont build security. They have a capacity to destroy all life forms on earth, all complex life forms on earth. They divert funds from health care, education, social services and, finally, before i introduce our guests id like you to close your eyes for one moment. Just close your eyes and think of all the people, places and things you love most in our world. Mar imagine that all of that could be destroyed by Nuclear Weapons. Thats why were here to make sure it never happens. Its my privilege to introduce our honored guests. Our first is Clifton Truman daniel. Would you like to come up . [ applause ] clifton is the grandson. Hes the only person to order Nuclear Weapons to be used on people. Clifton doesnt want them used again. Clifton, i believe your grandfather is very proud of the work you do. You will also hear from yumada from hiroshima. Hes a shining example of dedication. Since the atomic bombing shes devoted her life to working in japan to assist atomic bomb survivors with a Lifelong Health consequences of radioactive fallout. She also works on the global stage for Nuclear Abolition and will be speaking at the United Nations later today. Also my honor to introduce michio hakarea. He has come to us via the peace boat traveling the world working for peace and Environmental Justice sharing stories for others ravaged by war. In addition they raise money and give material aid to people affected by natural disasters. We believe you have the right to know about the world that you live in and all people should commit] 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 website of the International Campaign to abolish weapons icanw. Org to learn what you can do to take action now. Lets get to work. Our first step is to hear what our honored guests have to say. [ applause ] thank you, robert. Good morning, mr. Sakurai, mayor matsui, nice to see you again. Despite my background, despite myelin kn my lineage i learned about these bombings the same way all of you have, through history teachers through history books. My grandfather did not speak to me about 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 he would have told me anything differently than he did say publicly about his reasons but i learned about it the same way you did. In my history books the bombings were about a page, page and a half. There were photos of empty landscapes, photos of ruined buildings. There was not much about the human cost. It was numbers. How many had been killed, how many had been wounded, how many had been sickened. 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 and the following year in the spring of 1999 my son wesley brought home a book from school. He was in the fifth grade at the time. He brought home a book. Sadako and the 1,000 paper cranes. He was a real little girl who lived in hiroshima. She was 2 years old when the bomb exploded. She and her family survived almost unscathed. She developed radiation induced leukemia nine years later. In an effort to help cure herself she followed a japanese tradition that says if you fold 1,000 oragami papq cranes you 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 it stands in the peace park in hiroshima. Shes holding up a giant paper. Crane. Each year people from around the world people leave paper cranes at that memorial. At the memorial they leave 10,000 pounds, 10 tons of paper cranes every year just at her statue alone. I thought it was important at the time to read the story. It was the first time i had seen a personal story of hiroshima or nagasaki. So wesley and i read the story together. A few years later i mentioned that fact to a japanese journalist on the anniversary of the bombing in 2004. That story was read in japan. My phone rang. It was sadakos older brother. He said through an interpreter, i heard that you read my sisters story. Can we meet together some day . Can we Work Together . Can we do something . Then i said, yes. It took us six years. We didnt meet until 2010 here in manhattan. Matsuhiro and his son yugi were donating one of her last paper cranes to the World Trade Center memorial as a gesture of healing. During that meeting he had a small plastic box and he opened it and he took out a tiny paper crane. In the hospital sadako had to use any kind of paper that she could find. Candy wrappers, gift wrap, scraps of paper. Anything that she could scrounge from other patients, so some of these cranes are absolutely tiny and delicate. He took one out and he dropped it into my palm and he said, thats the last crane that sadako folded before she died. And at that point he and his father asked me if i would come to the memorial ceremonies in hiroshima and nagasaki. My family and i did go two years later. We went on august 6th and august 9th in 2012. We attended the ceremonies in hiroshima and nagasaki, and we sat down and heard testimony from more than 2 dozen surviv s survivors. We were simply there to listen to them. I took my two sons and my wife and we all went to japan and listened to survivors. They each asked only one thing of me after we were done, and that was that i keep telling their stories so that we never do this again. Its a gift and its not easy for them. Its not easy for rako and michi and the other survivors to relive this but they take it very seriously and do it out of respect and love for the rest of us so that we understand what its like to live through a Nuclear Explosion and that we take a step further and get rid of all of those Nuclear Weapons. It is i was i think a typical, atypical american. Atypical in that my grandfather was harry truman and ordered the only war time use of Nuclear Weapons in history but typical in the fact that i grew up not thinking about Nuclear Weapons. I thought that everything was fine. They had fail safe. They had locks. They had that our governments knew what they were doing. Its not its not that safe. I its not that easy. Some of the near misses will make your hair stand on end. How close weve come to setting one of those things off accidentally. So its a serious issue. Its something that can even setting off a few of them can poison the atmosphere, give us nuclear winter. So its not something that we can sit down and ignore. That job is going to fall for you. You have a very special opportunity here today with reiko and michi. Again, its a gift they give to you, to all of us to take and to do something with. So i encourage you to listen to their stories and take the lessons and take the next steps because this is this is not only my future but its very definitely your future and the future of all of your friends and colleagues and family. So thank you all very much for being here this morning. Thank you, mayor. Nice to see you both again as i said and thank you all. [ applause [ applause ] translator hello, everybody. My name is reiko. Im from hiroshima. Its been 69 years since this happened, the first new atomic bomb was dropped. I was a child at that time, and im here to tell you what i experienced on that day as a child. On august 6th, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima. By the year before that, in 1944, the citizens had been living a very hard life, severe life. There was hardly any food and even our clothing were ragsed to us with tickets. And because of all of the air raids in tokyo and hearing about this and also knowing that all the u. S. Bombers flying above our sides, we were we were ordered to flatten the land, flatten all the buildings, and it was us, the citizens that had to do this. And by citizens, i mean children just like you around 13, 14, 15 years old and our mothers. We children in Elementary School were ordered to evacuate to the countryside for safety and all the areas that we evacuated from were then utilized by the military. And that and because of this resulted that there was a lack of education for all of us Young Children. By that time, about half of the Young Children had been evacu e evacuated to the countryside. I was scheduled to evacuate on august 9th. On august 6th, early in that morning, there was not a single cloud in that sky. It was a beautiful blue sky. And all of the children that were still in the town went to the school yard. And so we were in the school yard, and there came a moment where we took a rest. When we looked up into the sky, there was a b29 bomber making a uturn and it was shiny, bright. As it made a uturn it created a white tail wind that you could see. It was quite beautiful. And as we were looking up to the sky thinking how beautiful it was, in an instant there was an immense flash and we were blinded. And so we immediately ran to the air raid shelters, and what happened to myself is that a blast of heat, immense heat hit my back and i was blown to the ground. In just a moment after that there was rain and we began to shiver. We later learned that thats whats called the black rain. Moments later we noticed that many of the people that were closer to the hyper center of where the bomb was dropped continued to run towards our area. They were injured or coated in blood. It was an overflow of people. They all cried out for help, asked for water, but we had no water to provide and we were not even able to help them. My family was composed of six family members, and on that day my mother and my 16yearold sister and my 13yearold sister were at home. My father was located about 1 kilometer from the hypo center. After a while he was brought home, completely coated in blood, by two soldiers. On the eve of the second day after the bomb was dropped, her back and her neck were severely burned. We had no way to no medication or no way to treat them and there were no doctors to help treat either so what they had to do was just sit there or lie down in pain. And so my mother decided to go to a neighbors house and ask for cucumbers. She brought the cucumbers home, sliced them very thinly, and placed them on my sisters neck and back, but the pain was excruciating and it didnt help enough. And my sister, half naked from her waist up, would be crying in pain. By the second day the overflow of people, almost everybody had died. And on the third day all of these bodies were carried as if they were trash or garbage on to all of our school yards. 3;1l n they were then cream mamated an stench and the black smoke in the sky was unbearable. Even in my neighborhood there was a home where there were five children. They had been waiting for days for their mother to return. On the second day their mother finally made it home, all black and on four legs, and at the moment that she arrived home, she fell over and died and left the five childrenz on their own. In another neighboring home there was a mother that had been waiting for her daughter. Her daughter never returned so she made lunch box, every day, and for a month and for two months she continued to search for her daughter but never found her. There was no help for these people. Never were they able to meet their families again. Theres so many people that died with no names. It is those deaths that we will never be able to forget. After cremating all of these bodies they were buried into the ground so as a result of the war we had very little to eat. We decided to plant Sweet Potatoes into the ground. When it was finally harvest time the following year and we dug up, more than the Sweet Potatoes, there were so many bones. Within that year in hiroshima and nagasaki 210,000 lost their lives. And in the early years and for years after that there was no way to treat what had happened to these people because the Nuclear Weapon was something new. Nobody knew how to treat the people that were being affected by the results. We living hibaksha call this weapon a weapon of the devil. There are still to this day so many people that are experiencing the after effects, including radiation. There are so many people that experienced during that time severe burns or being blast into the air. This type of weapon is completely indiscriminate of who it attacks. There are still so many hibaksha that are experiencing Health Issues and pain, agonizing pain. This is because there has not been any clear results as to the research of what the effects of and it is my desire on behalf of all of the hibaksha, that if you will listen to our plea and our story and carry it within your young power and your energy and do something, relay it, our message so that we can actually have so that you can actually have a world of peace free of Nuclear Weapons and a safe one for your own self in the future. Thank you very much. [ applause ] he haid like to welcome the students from the eagle academy. Yes. [ applause ] welcome. We know it was a long ways to come in to get to here today so were glad that you made it. Translator hello, everyone. My name is michio hakaria. I would like to talk to you my story, what i experienced when i was 8 years old. I was the second grade of the grammar school. This is a picture of the current nagasaki city. It is a beautiful city and its well known internationally as well. Well, 69 years ago at the red dot point it says hypo center. Thats the place where atomic bomb was dropped. It actually exploded 500 meters above the ground. At that time my house was located about three to four kilometers away from the hypo center. The city of nagasaki didnt have a flat area. It was a rather mountainous city. As you see, even on top of the mountains there were houses. Well, around the port area there were residential areas and the factories. Let me explain to you about nagasaki city and this map. You see the blue dot or the green dot is the hypo center. Well, when the bomb was dropped, the actual heat of the bomb was 3,000 to 4,000 centigrade. Well, each circle that you see here is marked every 300 meters. Within 1 kilometer area all by animals and the plants were completely destroyed. At that time there were radiation. Heat ray in a blast. An explosive blast. When it comes to the blast, for example, at 1 kilometer away from the hypo center the speed of the blast was about four times faster than the baseball that was thrown by the professional baseball pitcher. So please imagine the sounds tod pieces of wood and things like that were just flying against you. There were many people who died because of these, you know, flying objects. So it was 1945, august 9th, the atomic bomb was dropped. This picture was taken about two to three days prior to the atomic bomb was dropped by the american forces. Can you see the river running through the city . My best friend and i were supposed to go swimming to that river the day before the atomic bomb was dropped. Actually, the day when the bomb was dropped before that, although i wanted to go swim in that river with my friend, my mother stopped me because i havent finished my homework for Summer Vacation so my mother told me, you have to finish before you go swimming. So i stayed home without going swimming, and this is a picture that was taken three days after the atomic bomb was dropped. As you can see, theres nothing remain after this. So this is something very similar to my situation at that time. I was studying at home and theres a strong flash of light. At that time i thought there was a huge bomb was dropped so i covered my eyes and ears and made my whole body under put myself under something. Then i experienced a huge blast. We were inside a house and still the furniture pieces and the piece of glass pieces of glass were just flying against us as if they were like knives. Previously as she explained about her older brother who got injured with the flying glasses, this is what happened. These pictures were taken within 1 kilometer diameter from the hyper center. As you can see, the animals and the people were dying like this. Please take a look at this picture. As i explained to you before, at that day i was supposed to go swimming. I know my friend went there to swim and i remained home because my mother stopped me going. Well, im not sure if this boy was my friend or not. However, every single time when i see this picture, that could be myself. So when i think of it, that really excruciate me. I get very sad. This is a picture of mother and her child dying dead right by the on the platform. This place was actually within 1 kilometer diameter so there was no way they could survive. At that time nagasakis population is like a 210,000 people. And 1 3 of them died. There were so many people got injured and medical facilities were not enough so the emergency places, School Facilities were used for in order to treat