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Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was exposed to the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and later developed leukemia as a result of radiation from the explosion. Through the paper cranes she folded while hospitalized, she became one of the enduring symbols of peace and nuclear disarmament in the postwar period. Early Life and the Atomic Bomb Sadako Sasaki was born on 7 January 1943 in Hiroshima. On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, operated by the United States Army Air