YAMAGUCHI Seiji was 14 years old when he was exposed to radiation. It was when he was 1st grade of Nagasaki Technical High School. He was exposed to radiation when he was digging a bomb shelter at ...

The atomic bomb, which exploded 580 meters above Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, turned into a plasma fireball with a temperature of approximately 10 million degrees and 1 million atmospheres within a ...

Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Shohei Tsuiki holds up a photo of his devastated city burned and blackened by the nuclear explosion as he speaks about his experiences in the city of Nagasaki on Nov. 2, 2024.

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...

YOSHIYAMA Hideko was 22 years old at the time of the atomic bombing and was exposed to the atomic bomb at the Mitsubishi Steel Nagasaki company, where she worked, 1.2 kilometers south of the ...

Filmmaker Masaaki Tanabe shows where he found a hope-inspiring seedling months after the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, by the A-Bomb Dome on June 25, 2021. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada) In the ...