The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 32nd Annual Evening for Peace took place on October 25 in Santa Barbara, California. The Foundation presented its Distinguished Peace Leadership Award to Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an outspoken advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
ResourcesIntroductory remarks by NAPF President David Krieger Acceptance speech by Setsuko Thurlow Interview with Ms. Thurlow on KCLU radio Interview with Ms. Thurlow in the Santa Barbara Independent Article in CASA Magazine (on page 4) |
Setsuko Thurlow
“How do you describe a Hell on Earth?” she asks. “Within that single flash of light, my beloved Hiroshima became a place of desolation, with heaps of rubble, skeletons and blackened corpses everywhere.” She has chosen to make it her life’s mission to tell the story of what happened that day so that “…no human being should ever have to repeat our experience of the inhumane, immoral and cruel atomic bombing.” Click here to learn more about NAPF’s 2015 Distinguished Peace Leader, Setsuko Thurlow. |
Setsuko was thirteen years old the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown, Hiroshima.
Evening for Peace SponsorsNAPF is very grateful to the following people who made the 2015 Evening for Peace possible. Architect of Peace Patrons of Peace Advocate for Peace Student Sponsors Friends of Peace Dinner Committee Partners in Peace |