A SURVIVOR of the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be speaking at a public conference next week.

Setsuko Thurlow will give a keynote speech on her experience as one of the Hibakusha – a Japanese term used to describe the survivors of the two atomic bombs, literally meaning “the explosion affected people.”

She gave her very first testimony of her experience of the bombings 30 years ago in York. Now, she will attend an event on May 5 hosted by the University of York’s Department of Politics.

She was a young girl when the atomic bomb detonated over her home town of Hiroshima in 1945 – and her childhood experience of the suffering and devastation led her to dedicate most of her life to the abolition of nuclear weapons through disarmament education.

Now resident in Canada, her work takes her around the world, with the Japanese government recently appointing her as Special Communicator for the World.

The conference will take place in the Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul building on Campus West from 5pm to 7pm. Tickets are free and available to book at york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/summer-2016/nuclear-violence/