2024-05-27
59 分钟Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like. She was a 13-year-old schoolgirl when an atomic bomb was dropped on her home city of Hiroshima, Japan. Most of the places she knew were destroyed in an instant. Narrowly escaping death herself, Setsuko became a witness to the aftermath of atomic warfare, and the things she saw that day would compel her to spend her life fighting for nuclear disarmament. Archive was from British Pathé Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Jo Impey and Harry Graham Editor: Laura Thomas Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784
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We had a large house and since my father was acting as a head of the clan, all the relatives and families come together to our place for birthdays or graduation from university, wedding, funeral, everything.
So our place was like Grand Central Station, you know, lots of people coming and going.
When Setsuko Thurlow remembers her childhood home in 1940s Japan, her eyes twinkle.
Hers was a wealthy family.
Her mother liked to boast that their ancestors were high status samurai class warriors.
But that house was wiped from the map along with many others in the city and tens of thousands of people who lived there.
One summer afternoon in 1945, the place was Hiroshima and the precise moment it was flattened by a nuclear bomb, August 6th at 8:16am.
At that moment I did see the flash.
The flash.
I didn't have a moment to wonder what it was because immediately my body was up in the air.
My body was floating up in the air.
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I'm Joe Fidgen.
Setsuko was 13 when the world changed.