“We must not only mourn the death of a great leader for our cause, but we must also continue in his path, undeterred, and always remember his words,” he told Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV. “Never give up” was his trademark phrase, especially for his fight for a world without nuclear weapons.Īkira Kawasaki of ICAN, or the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of non-government organizations, said the death of a man who had been the poster boy for anti-nuclear proliferation left him with a “big hole” in his heart. He was so intent on educating youngsters about anti-nuclear proliferation his nickname became “pikadon sensei,” combining the “flash-boom” onomatopoeia Japanese use to describe the bomb and the word for “teacher.” Tsuboi worked as a junior high school teacher. “Here it was about annihilation,” he told the AP. Tsuboi made a point to stress what happened in Hiroshima was horrible. forces dropped a second nuclear bomb, on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000 people. The world’s first atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people instantly and within months. No mistake about that,” Tsuboi said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2013. He was so weak and scarred he had to start by practicing crawling on the floor. When he emerged from unconsciousness 40 days after the bombing, the war was over. He suffered such serious burns a part of his ear was gone. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
Tsuboi was 20 years old when he miraculously survived the U.S.
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