Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Nihon Hidankyo, pledged on Tuesday to continue recounting the horrors of a nuclear attack for the rest of his days.
"I will let everybody know the reality of the damage caused by atomic bombs as long as I live," the 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of the city of Nagasaki about 79 years ago told a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
A U.S. B-29 dropped a second atomic bomb over the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the first-ever atomic-bombing was conducted at the city of Hiroshima. It has been estimated that by the end of that year around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and some 70,000 people in Nagasaki because of the two bombings.
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