Nagasaki survivor: ‘The 1945 bomb is a homemade device compared to today’s nuclear weapons’
Shigemitsu Tanaka, co-president of Nihon Hidankyo, the organization that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, says the world is a more dangerous place today and that ‘the nuclear taboo is no longer so taboo’
Shigemitsu Tanaka takes a small cream-coloured towel out of a bag, carefully unfolds it and reveals a kind of flattened blackish stone. “It’s not a stone, it’s a piece of tile from a roof in Nagasaki. In three seconds, it turned into this. Imagine the effect that the nuclear explosion had on human beings,” explains this 84-year-old Japanese man, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in an interview with this newspaper in Madrid, Spain.
