On this day, 69 years ago, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. American military planners selected the city for destruction because it was a strategic target. But locals knew it as a place full of wives whose husbands were away at war, of young children and men too old or too young for the fight, and of grandparents tasked with helping out with the grandchildren.
The largely civilian death toll was 140,000.
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A photo of (from left) Shigeno Nakamura (mother), Setsuko Nakamura (Thurlow),
Yukiko (sister), Benkichi (father), Suzue (niece) and Hideko (sister in law) in Japan. |
83 year old survivor and disarmament educator Setsuko Thurlow tells her story to prevent such a holocaust from happening again.
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