More than 200,000 men, women, and children died from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks at the time of the bombings and over the next five months as a result of grave wounds and acute radiation exposure. In the years that followed, tens of thousands more suffered from injury and radiation-related diseases. An estimated 192,000 hibakusha (atomic bomb–affected people—pronounced hee-bakh-sha) are still alive today. The youngest, exposed in utero to the bombs’ radiation, will turn seventy in August 2015.
