70 Years Later, Remembering The Lives Lost And Shattered At Hiroshima

70 Years Later, Remembering The Lives Lost And Shattered At Hiroshima

By Audie Cornish

Seventy years ago Thursday, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. To mark the anniversary, Melissa Block and Audie Cornish read from journalist John Hershey’s interviews with the city’s survivors in 1946.

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