ABSTRACT
The details of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are related in many other works and so will not be dwelt on. Suffice it to say that, at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, a uranium atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, emitting blast, heat and radiation. From September 1945 the Occupation imposed the Press Code which meant a rigid censorship on any materials critical of the United States or connected with the atomic bombings. But on October 2, 1949, at a meeting in the auditorium of Hiroshima Jogakuin, a Grade 5 boy stood up unexpectedly, related the loss of his older brother in the atomic bombing and expressed his desire for a world free of atomic bombs. The people in Tokyo didn't know much about the suffering of the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the newspapers were not free to publish the details.
