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In one of the glass cases, a helmet still had the charred flesh of a person’s scalp stuck inside.
Near the center of his chest, deep indentations still remained where his skin and flesh had rotted, the result of lying on his stomach for nearly four years.
why do most Americans know little or nothing about the victims’ experiences beneath the atomic clouds or in the years since 1945?
Because they don’t want us to. Duh!
More than 200,000 men, women, and children died from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks
The youngest, exposed in utero to the bombs’ radiation, will turn seventy in August 2015.
Of nine Nagasaki residents who had survived the Hiroshima bombing, some had already returned to Nagasaki, while others arrived in the city that morning by train.
One man, who had dug through the ruins of his Hiroshima home to find his wife, now walked through the streets of Nagasaki carrying a washbasin filled with her ashes to give to her parents.
At its burst point, the center of the explosion reached temperatures higher than at the center of the sun, and the velocity of its shock wave exceeded the speed of sound.
