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Hiroshima survivor

Yoshie Matsumoto, HiroshimaAugust 7, 2015

On August 6th, 1945, a US warplane dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Up to 140,000 people were killed. Thousands more would later suffer through the effects of severe burns and radiation. Masahiro Kunishige, who was 14 when the bomb hit, shares his story.

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