"The Atomic Age" as viewed by a Hiroshima survivor

Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

Here is her plenary speech at our confernce "A Mountain of Waste Seventy Years High" on the seventy-year commemoration of the first experimental atomic criticality as performed by Enrico Fermi in an atomic pile assembled on a squash court under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942 as part of the United States atomic bomb program, the Manhattan Project. 

The December 1-2, 2012 conference at the University of Chicago was sponsored by Nuclear Energy Information Service, Beyond Nuclear and Friends of the Earth.