Deaf atomic bomb survivor, 87, recalls Nagasaki in sign language: "I saw the sky flash and a mushroom cloud in a world without sound"

Mr. Nakao, 87, born Deaf in Nagasaki and now living in Tokyo's Edogawa ward, shared his atomic bombing experience in sign language. As a Deaf child he could not hear air-raid sirens and relied on friends' gestures to warn him of enemy planes. He saw the flash and mushroom cloud without understanding it was an atomic bomb, and now stresses he never wants to live through a war that kills so many people again.