As long as there is breath in his frail body, 90-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi vows to keep pressing for peace.
And now the survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings has taken his message to the United Nations for the first time.
Arriving by wheelchair but then descending the stairs on foot with a cane to an auditorium at the U.N. headquarters, the lithe, energetic man wowed the audience with his emotional tale of survival.
"What I mean to say here is that as a double atomic bomb survivor I experienced the bomb twice, and I sincerely hope that there will not be a third," he told the gathering Thursday at the Dag Hammarskjold auditorium to watch a screening of "Niijuuhibaku" ("Twice Bombed, Twice Survived"), a 50-minute documentary in which he is featured along with other double atomic bomb survivors.