Nagasaki survivor fights on for disarmament
Terumi Tanaka has now gone online with his anti-nuclear message
03 August 2020 - 16:41
Tokyo — Terumi Tanaka was 13 when a US warplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki, on August 9 1945.
Sitting at home with a book that morning, Tanaka knew instantly when his surroundings turned a blinding bright white that the huge boom was not one of the air raids he had gotten accustomed to in the waning days of World War 2...
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