Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors write messages to future generations

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Seventy-eight-year-old Takato Michishita, who survived the bombing after his mother had a “bad feeling” and made him stay home from school that say, said: “Dear young people who have never experienced war, Wars begin covertly. He said: “One can understand the horrors of nuclear warfare by visiting the atomic bomb museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, listening to first-hand accounts of hibakusha survivors, and reading archival documents from that period. “I have resigned to the fact that nuclear weapons will not be abolished during the lifetime of us first generation hibakusha survivors. Asked what message she would give to future generations she simply replied: “I can’t think of anything.” Describing their recollection of the sunny morning of 9 August when the deadly bomb fell from the sky over Nagasaki, survivors mentioned many of the same memories: a flash of blinding white light, a wave of heat and pressure and then scenes of total devastation.