I survived Nagasaki bombing – Putin has no idea of the horrors of nuclear war

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. Terumi Tanaka, one of a diminishing number of survivors of the US attacks on Japan in August 1945, said the use of nuclear weapons would spell “the end of the human race” and that leaders like Mr Putin “don’t realise the extent of the damage that can be done”. Mr Tanaka’s warning, made during a sit-down interview with The Independent in campaign group Nihon Hidankyo’s small but bustling Tokyo office, came at a time of escalating nuclear sabre-rattling from the Russian leadership. And are you saying it’s OK to do that?” Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, speaks to The Independent in the group’s office in Tokyo Mr Tanaka is the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo – The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations – whose decades of advocacy work against nuclear weapons has finally been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. This is not what humans should be doing to each other.” A Ukrainian serviceman fires a 2S5 152mm self-propelled howitzer towards Russia In its statement announcing the decision to award Nihon Hidankyo the peace prize, the Nobel Committee recognised the group’s “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.