Monday, August 03, 2015

Hiroshima: 70 years on, one survivor remembers the horror of the world's first atomic bombing...

It was a warm summer’s morning and five-year-old Yukiko Nakabushi was the first to arrive at nursery school. She sat playing quietly as she waited for her friends to come through the door. Except they never arrived.

Instead, at precisely 8.15am, she saw a sudden flash accompanied by a deafeningly loud bang – and in an instant, the world’s first atomic bombing transformed the Japanese city of Hiroshima into a living hell.

Mrs Nakabushi, 76, is one of the nation’s remaining 183,519 survivors of the 1945 bombing – known as hibakusha – for whom the events of exact moment are etched in their memories with haunting clarity.

 This week marks the 70th anniversary of the August 6 Hiroshima attack and the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, followed by Japan’s Second World War surrender. Full story...

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