Access for All Episode 1323: Leaving The Nuclear Age with Clifton Truman Daniel

Heather Wokusch interviews Clifton Truman Daniel on Survivors of Hiroshima and discuss the book, Sadako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes, written by a real little girl who was 2 yrs old when the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.Sadako was diagnosed with radiation induced leukemia 9 yrs later. In an effort to live, Sadako followed a Japanese tradition : if you fold 1000 origami paper cranes you will be granted health & long life.Sadako folded around 1500 and died of leukemia Oct 25, 1955.