Leaving The Nuclear Age with Clifton Truman Daniel

April 13, 2021

Heather Wokusch interviews Clifton Truman Daniel on Survivors of Hiroshima and discuss the book, Sadako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes, written by a real little girl who was 2 yrs old when the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.Sadako was diagnosed with radiation induced leukemia 9 yrs later. In an effort to live, Sadako followed a Japanese tradition : if you fold 1000 origami paper cranes you will be granted health & long life.Sadako folded around 1500 and died of leukemia Oct 25, 1955.

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