Atomic People

The Day of the Bombing

On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Survivors of the bombing (Hibakusha) retell what their day was like before the bombing and the horrors they experienced shortly afterwards.

The Day of the Bombing

5m 49s

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    Atomic People

    E1 - 1h 25m

    Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, "Atomic People" features a number of
    voices from some of the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.

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