This is John Batcheter, a conversation with my good colleague Charlie Pellegrino, speaking of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the survivors of the atomic bomb attack in 1945, two of them, Rocha Managasaki.

Charlie comments on how in 1945 and for many years afterwards there was severe censorship not only in the United States

from what the bomb had done but also in Japan and that the survivors of the bomb

were ostracized.

People didn't want to have them in their families.

They were afraid of birth defects.

Not an unreasonable fear given the little they understood about

what radiation does to human beings.

Here's Charlie describing how the skipping of the details went on for many years, maybe still

going on around the graves of the victims

especially the little ones. Charlie Bellagrino was speaking of the Nobel

Peace Prize for the survivors, the number looks to be 106,000 in the 21st century

of the two bombs dropped in anger in 1945. More of this tonight.

Actually everything about the bomb was pretty much censored.

Even some of the graves that are to school children who were wiped out during the blast, the graves, they were allowed to have the

infinity sign, but no mention for decades that these were atomic bomb deaths.

One of the people with the Nobel,

she carries around a long yellow ribbon that's about three foot wide with the names of the children and

the teachers about 350 of them from her own school.

She survived alone because she was called a way to work in

decoding messages and in a military bunker and that's why she survived and none of her friends did.

And that's sexicotherlo.

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