Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

by Susan Southard

“This is what I say to children,” he explained. “‘Have you ever looked up heiwa [peace] in the dictionary?’ They never have! They’ve never looked it up because we don’t need to know what peace is during peacetime. ‘Let’s look it up together,’ I say to them. ‘Our greatest enemy is carelessness. We need to pay attention to peace.’”