Senator brown tonight i am proud to stand with a person who says we shouldnt be building walls, we should be knocking down barriers. Yesterday, i was in akron, and i was on stage with William Jefferson clinton, and i looked at him at one point. He was in akron probably because of the ohio primary, and i turned to him and said, no offense, mr. President , but Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to run for president in my lifetime. [applause] senator brown and she is. And he smiled and laughed and clapped and i think he meant it. Heres what it is about hillary. I trust Hillary Clinton to fight for children and families because she has done that all her life. [applause] senator brown from her early days with the childrens defense fund, to her time in the senate, leading on the Childrens Health insurance plan, and i trust Hillary Clinton to fight for human rights and Voting Rights and womens rights. [applause] senator brown from her time in alabama as a civil rights worker when she was 25 to the work she did as our secretary of state on behalf of women all over the world and womens rights. [applause] senator brown and i trust Hillary Clinton on trade and manufacturing. Im leading in the senate, as you know, im leading the opposition to the Transpacific Partnership and i think were going to defeat it. [applause] senator brown a decade or so ago, i wrote a book on trade, so i dont come to this issue lightly, but i trust Hillary Clinton on manufacturing and trade. She has the best Manufacturing Policy of any candidate in this race, and i know that what Hillary Clinton is proposing on trade, a special trade prosecutor, unprecedented in our country, tripling trade enforcement by putting on more trade investigators, country,nted in our coming down hard on currency that china has debased and manipulated for years, and what shes doing on rules of origin and what that means for the American Auto industry. I trust her because i know what she will do, fight for american jobs with a different trade policy, a different tax policy, and a different Manufacturing Policy. [applause] senator brown so it is my honor to introduce on monday afternoon, i usually think i will go off to washington. Because of that, this week, tomorrow, im going to the board of elections and im going to cast my vote for the next president , americas first female commanderinchief, Hillary Rodham clinton. 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Not as an institution. It may become a more efficient body because of televised proceedings. The proceedings of the United States senate are being broadcast to the nation on television for the first time. Not that we have operated in secret until now. Millions of americans have sat in the galleries and observed Senate Debates during their visits to washington. Today, they can witness the proceedings in their own homes. In effect, the senate floor has been a kind of stage. Senators have been acting on that stage. Is in thece galleries. By our action today, we have not fundamentally altered that situation. We have enlarged the galleries. We have pushed out the walls to include the American People to watch. Commemorating 30 years of coverage of the senate on cspan2. Arms control association held its annual meeting monday in washington dc. Survivor atomic bomb Setsuko Thurlow was awarded the associations 2015 arms control person of the year award. She spoke about her life and work. This is about an hour. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Arms controle 2016 Association Annual meeting. I am the executive director of the Arms Control Association. We are an independent Membership Organization established in 1971. We are dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threat posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons. We are pleased to see so many of you here today. Members, friends, supporters, reporters, also. The support and contribution of e what makes our work possible. Thank you for all that you do for us. We could not be here today without you. I want to welcome those of you watching on cspan today, following the annual meeting for the next few hours. Find out more about the Arms Control Association, about our news and information, analysis weaponsrelated challenges, through our website, armscontrol. Org. Access analysis, including our monthly journal, arms control today, on our new app. Yes, we have an app. The latest in arms control information technology. Can bes control app android,d on apple, and amazon. If you need technical assistance, we have folks outside who can help you download your arms control app. We encourage those of you here today and watching to engage with us through twitter with the armscontrol16. As you can see from our Meetings Program on your table and available through the arms control app, we have organized a substantive, highlevel program that will cover a wide range of challenges facing the United States and the world. An hour, an expert panel of leading experts on preventing the spread of Nuclear Materials will discuss major proliferation challenges they think will face the next president of the United States beginning in 2017. We are honored to have as our second keynote speaker the deputy of National Strategic communications, benjamin rhodes, who joins us to talk about president obamas ongoing efforts to discuss the number, role, and risk of Nuclear Weapons. He is also going to take questions from this audience. That should be very interesting. In the afternoon, we will finish up with Expert Panel Discussion on the enormous budgetary cost of president obamas plan to make upgrades to u. S. Systems. That panel will discuss possible options and issues and choices for the next president and Congress Regarding those costs while still addressing key u. S. Defense requirements. First of this morning, we are going to begin with our opening keynote speaker. And the awarding of the 2015 arms control person of the year award. We will be hearing in a few minutes from the remarkable Setsuko Thurlow, who was a 13yearold student at her hima when theos u. S. Air force detonated an atomic bomb on her city. In recognition for her efforts and all the survivors of the hiroshima bombings, to ensure that no such horror occurs again, she was nominated for our arms control person of the year award last year. Present her her and with the award is the vicechairman of the arms f. Trol association, paul walker. Paul is a significant figure in the arms control field. Theas recognized in 2013 as recipient of the livelihood award for a decade of service. After pauls introduction of setsuko, we will hear from her, and she will take your questions. Paul, i would invite you to the podium. If you could come up also, that would be great. Good morning, everybody. Nice to be here. Nice to see so many friendly and recognizable faces in the audience. Nice to see we have such good turnout today as well. As the general said, my name is paul walker. I work with green cross international, founded by mikael gorbachev. Of our group for 23 or 24 years now. To be here as vice chair for the board of the Arms Control Association. I have a very enjoyable task of presenting the 2015 arms control person of the year award to Setsuko Thurlow. Let me say a few words about the award and how we make this determination. I know many of you here know this already from our many annual awardees. Every year since 2007, the Arms Control Association staff has nominated several individuals and institutions that have proliferated. Nomineesast years provided leadership to reduce securityrelated threats. You can see the winners since 2007 in your program. Setsuko thurlow received the highest number of votes in an online poll to determine the arms control person of the year. And hiroshimaw nagasaki were nominated for sharing their accounts of the inhumane effects of Nuclear Weapons, which serves to maintain pressure for effective action in eliminating and outlawing Nuclear Weapons and testing. By sharing first handing thurlow and survivors like her have played a Critical Role when it comes to raising awareness of the consequences of Nuclear Weapons use and prompting leaders to take action of ending the nuclear threat. 70 years after the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, our voters chose to honor those who experienced the horrors of Nuclear Weapons. I cannot imagine experiencing a Nuclear Weapon exploded. They have worked hard and tirelessly to ensure that Nuclear Weapons are never used again. Setsuko and the diminishing ka are af habashu reminder of why a pursuit of a World WithoutNuclear Weapons is so important, to quote our esteemed director of the Arms Control Association. With that, setsuko, let me give you the award. If you would come up, i will present you, on behalf of the Arms Control Association, with this prestigious award. We are very pleased to have you with us today. Congratulations. [applause] setsuko, i will let you make your presentation. We will try to lead time. We have until about 10 00. I will try to leave time for questions. The podium is yours. Ms. Thurlow thank you very much, all. So humbled and pleased to tiful i ambeau very happy to be here this morning and to meet with you and to receive this honor and to have the chance to talk a little bit about my experiences and thoughts and feelings about Nuclear Weapons. Minute change last in my plan. I am just speaking from the heart and put the paper away. Shock, it was a total surprise, to learn i was going to receive the award from this organization. Especially when i learned that people around the world voted for me. I did not realize i had so many friends around the world. Miracleelt it was a that i received it. Not only i, but my fellow colleagues, the members of the habushaka association in japan honored with me. As well, let me give you my heartfelt thank you. Now, i used the word miracle i didy, but 71 years ago, experience a miracle. And here i am in your company today. I thought i would share my personal experience with you. Are experts,f you specialists. Sure you are quite wellinformed and knowledgeable of all kinds of human conditions, including the human consequences of Nuclear Weapons. My i thought i would offer personal experience. 1945, i was a 13yearold grade 8 student in the girls school. On that very day, i was at the army headquarters. A group of about 30 girls had to be to do decoding work of topsecret information. Can you imagine . That shows how desperate japan was. I met the girls at the station at 8 00, before 8 00. At 8 00, at the military headquarters, which was 1. 8 kilometers from ground zero. Ands on the second floor started the morning assembly. They gave us a pep talk. This is the day to start proving your patriotism for the emperor. That sort of thing. We said, yes, sir, we will do our best. When we said that, i saw the flash in the window. I had the sensation of floating up in the air. When i regained consciousness in i could notrkness, move. H. Knew i was faced with deat then i started hearing whispering voices of the girls around me. Help me. D me, mother , knew i was surrounded by them although i could not see anybody in the darkness. Male suddenly, strong voices as well. Do not give up. I am trying to free you. He kept shaking my Left Shoulder from behind. Keep pushing. You will see the sun coming through the opening. Get out that way. Crawl as quickly as possible. By the time i came out of the building, it was on fire. 30 other girls who were with me were burned to death. Two other girls managed to come out. The three of us looked around. Although that happened in the morning, it was very dark. Dark like twilight. Seeing a object approaching the. Me. Pproaching they happened to be streams of human beings, slowly shuffling from the city. They did not look like human beings. Their hair was standing straight up, burned and black and bleeding. Parts of the body were missing. Hanging. And flesh were some were carrying their own ey eyels, hanging from the socket. As they collapsed, their stomachs burst open with intestines stretching out. Said, you girls joined the procession to the nearby hills. Byt is what we did, carefully stepping over the dead bodies, injured bodies. What a strange situation. For help. Screaming they did not have that kind of strength left. They were simply whispering, water, please. Everybody was asking for water. Were lightly injured. By the time we got to the hillside, we went to the nearby stream and washed off the blood and took off the clothes and put them in the stream and help them over the mouths of dying people. Had aace we escaped to military training ground, huge place, about the size of two football fields. The place was packed with the de ad and dying. We wanted to help, but everybody wanted the water. There were no cups to carry the water. That is why we had a primitive way. That is all we could do. I looked around to see if there were any doctors and nurses. But i saw none of them in that huge place. Tens of thousands of people in that place without medication, no medical attention, medication, ointment. Nothing was provided for them, just a few drops of water. That was the level of socalled rescue operations. Busy allept ourselves day doing that. Of course, all the doctors and nurses were killed, too. Just a small percentage of medical professionals survived, they were serving people somewhere else, not where i was. We threedarkness fell, girls, together with hundreds of other people who escaped, we just sat on the hillside. All night, we watched the empire city burn. Mbed from thenu massive scale of death and suffering we had witnessed. I was not responding appropriately. Omething happens to my psyche there is talk of psychic closing off in a situation like that. Being mortal of takes place automatically. I am glad of that explanation. If we responded emotionally to i witnessedic sight , i could not have survived. Of that verynd day. Aboutpeople can talk being near the rivers, the rivers full of floating dead bodies and so on. About people in my family, my friends, how they lost their lives. Bombwill give you how the affected human beings. I talked about 30 girls who were with me. The rest were at the city center. Establishas trying to names to be prepared for the air raid. 8 studentsde 7 and were recruited and brought to the center of the city. They were providing manual labor. Center,y were in the right below the detonation of so they are the ones that simply vaporized, melted, and carbonized. Student,inlaw was a one of the teachers supervising students. , but we to locate her have never done so. On paper, she is still missing. With thousands of others, i understand there were several thousand students, 7000 or 8000 o