Hiroshima Survivor Shigeko Sasamori Dies

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the dangers of nuclear war.

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If it was ok for my country to explode nuclear weapons of mass destruction over a civilian city in order to win a war, then it is ok for any country, any terrorist organization to do the same to us.
We burned alive thousands of little Japanese children in the greatest single act of terrorism ever committed by human beings.

#1 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-12-29 06:26 AM | Reply

In the Errol Morris film The Fog of War (2003) Robert McNamara, heavily involved in planning the firebombing of Japan, said Curtis LeMay told him if the US lost the war they'd both be tried as war criminals. See youtu.be

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-12-29 06:36 AM | Reply

Heck of a story. What a life she lived.

#3 | Posted by cbob at 2024-12-29 07:45 AM | Reply

I recently finished a book that contained first hand accounts from a few survivors. Brutal stuff.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-12-29 12:07 PM | Reply