Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow was born in Hiroshima in 1932. When Harry S. Truman took the horrifying, inhuman and fateful decision on August 6, 1945, to single out the United States for dubious renown as the only country in history to use the atomic bomb against another people—and did so twice in three days despite the horrendous results of the first attack—Setsuko, now 85, was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. At the precise moment in which the Doomsday Clock struck twelve in Hiroshima, she was only eighteen blocks from the hypocenter of the blast. What she would witness would be the direct results of nuclear holocaust—her city leveled, and friends, family, classmates literally vaporized or melting before her eyes in the expansion wave and firestorm that followed detonation of a primitive US A-bomb known as “Little Boy”. Detonation over Hiroshima Setsuko’s immediate survival, and the fact that she also survived the nuclear aftermath and has reached a ri
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.