In the morning, he opens his window and looks out over Nagasaki, marveling that the city before him was built out of the atomic ruins. “One person can’t do anything, but if many people gather together, they can accomplish unimaginable things,” he says. “If it’s possible to rebuild this city out of nothing, why isn’t it possible for us to eliminate war and nuclear weapons, to create peace? We can’t not do it!”
