Knopf, 1946), was instrumental in rebuilding the city and promoting a message of peace through the Hiroshima Maiden Project, which assisted young girls who had been disfigured from the attack, and the Moral Adoption Project, which supported war orphans. Her father, Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, one of the six survivors featured in John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” (Alfred A. Too young to remember details of the event, Kondo grew up witnessing its horrific consequences. Bates/The Athens NewsKondo was eight months old in 1945 when the first atomic bomb was dropped just a half-mile from her home in Hiroshima, burying her mother and herself under their home. Peace activist Koko Tanimoto Kondo will give the keynote address at COA graduation.