Atomic People

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The decision by the United States to drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki three days later, was one of the most momentous and destructive in world history. Now, nearly 80 years later, testimony of some of the last 'Hibakusha' survivors of the two atomic bombs is gathered before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped. Archive footage is combined with the personal accounts of this shrinking group, the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb and whose experiences continue to affect them to this day.