Originally uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Eo9ho-uBzE by Manhattan Project National Historical Park This video was created in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and designed for middle school-aged children. Two-year old Sadako Sasaki was at home in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6th, 1945, when the United States Air Force dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb over her city. Sadako survived the bombing of Hiroshima but passed away ten years later from leukemia. Japanese folklore says that a crane can live for a thousand years, and a person who folds an origami crane for each year of a crane’s life will have their wish granted. Sadako folded 1,300 origami cranes shortly before her death in 1955. The story of Sadako's origami cranes has inspired generations of people to create a more peaceful world.