The Washington Post's front page reports: Hiroshima, Japan - At the 2010 United Nations General Assembly, when then-US President Barack Obama delivered a historic speech on seeking peace and a world free of nuclear weapons, Koko Kondo was present. She is a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. After the speech, she expressed her wish to Obama that he would stop nuclear tests.
As one of the first generation of survivors who spoke out globally about the experience of the atomic bomb, Kondo collected information from more than 6,000 victims in her community, establishing an archive documenting this disaster. She considers this work as her mission.
Kondo has always regarded the United States as an ally, but Trump's nuclear statements have complicated her efforts to seek peace, making her realize that the task of reminding people of this painful history to prevent its recurrence is more difficult than ever before. For many years, she began to see the United States as a major ally in the fight against nuclear weapons. However, this woman who hopes that the United States will abandon its nuclear arsenal and regard it as key to achieving peace now watches the country that dropped the atomic bomb on her hometown 78 years ago seemingly moving in the opposite direction in her eyes.
She tells herself that she must continue to love America, even though it was once her enemy.
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