Hiroshima Survivor Recalls Devastation

“I saw that everybody looked so terrible, just like they came from hell,” she said. “No one was talking. No one was screaming.”
Hiroshima Survivor Recalls Devastation The Washington Post, July 16, 2005 (quoting Hiroshima survivor Shigeko Sasamori, 73)

60 years ago today, the first nuclear explosion began the age of the atom bomb. On August 6 and August 9 that same year, 100,000 people died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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