00:00on august 9th 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on this city
00:09now 80 years since that day
00:14who could have possibly imagined that our world would become like this
00:23immediately sees from disputes in which force is met with force
00:30conflicts around the world are intensifying in a vicious cycle of confrontation and fragmentation
00:39if we continue on this tragedy we will end up thrusting ourselves into a nuclear war
00:46this existential crisis of humanity has become imminent to each and every one of us living on this
00:53planet speaking as the first hibakusha to address the united nations general assembly in 1982
01:07the late yamaguchi seiji described the horrific scene of the bombing as follows
01:15i saw people all around me with extruding eyeballs men and women showered with penetrating splinters
01:23of glass and wood and a weeping young mother frantically holding on to her half decapitated baby
01:30to my left and to my right dead bodies lay fallen to the ground like stones
01:35at the end of his address mr yamaguchi showed a photograph of his injuries and appealed forcefully
01:46to the death of his injuries and the death of his injuries and the death of his injuries
01:50take a close look at my face and arms
01:55we must never allow
01:57even a single person among the people of the world and the children to be born in the future to go
02:03through the death and suffering caused by nuclear weapons that the hibakusha have suffered
02:09no more hiroshima's no more nagasaki's no more war no more hibakusha
02:26this cry from deep within his heart is the crystallization of the hibakusha's feelings
02:33the unshakable conviction of the hibakusha who have moved the world with the power of their testimony
02:44as well as their actions has drawn praise and last year the nihon hirankyo was awarded the nobel peace
02:52prize nihon hirankyo was established in 1956 all of the world all of whom are global citizens
03:00so the power of one person alone may be weak if we join together it will lead to a great force to
03:09open a path to the future the hibakusha have shown this through their actions the first step is to know
03:18the other person we must repeatedly conduct dialogue and exchanges understand each other and little by
03:28build up trust
03:33you
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