Ivana Hughes

There's a particularly...

touching story of a young girl who was two years old in Hiroshima the day of the bombings.

Her name was Sadako Sasaki.

And when she was 12, so 10 years after the bombing, she developed leukemia.

She had been, you know, growing well and was very athletic and very active.

And she developed leukemia.

And she is the one who...

She learned the story of the paper crane, the folding of the origami.

And she learned the story that if you fold a thousand paper cranes, your wish will come true.

There are now some differences in kind of details of what happened, how many paper cranes she folded and so on.

But needless to say, she died.

And after she died, it was actually her friends who wanted to do something in her honor.

And essentially over, you know, the decades, the paper cranes that she was folding really became a kind of symbol of peace.

And this sort of message, you know, she...

She was wishing, folding the paper cranes, she was wishing not just to get better, but she was wishing for world peace.

And that's kind of what got taken up by.

Yeah, I would say it's absolutely, certainly end of the world as we know it.

Whether we all, you know, perish or some people survive.

the latter is certainly possible.

Actually, the UN is now advancing a study on the consequences of nuclear war, something that really hasn't been studied, I would say, in terms of