"I have a mission to tell people that this should not happen again," she told a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of nuclear war on human health in 1980. "I tell people how horrible it was and how horribly we suffered even though we were children. The next generation of children has come into the world, and I fear for them."
Ms. Sasamori spoke gently, but resolutely, against nuclear war to audiences that included students, United Nations interns and guides, and members of the U.S. Senate.
On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Ms. Sasamori was one of the students assigned to clear the streets of Hiroshima of debris to make the city easier to evacuate if necessary. She heard a buzzing sound from the sky and told a classmate, 'Look at the white thing falling from that airplane.'
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