70 Years Scars of Nuclear War + VIDEO of Nagasaki Bomb

Sat Aug 8, 2015 15:42:56

This is Japanese pensioner who survived the Nagasaki bomb shows off the remains of his ribs and the horrific wounds on his back 70 years on from the blast that killed more than 100,000

On August 9, 1945, America dropped its second atomic bomb in three days. Sumitery Taniguchi, 86, was just 16 at the time of the devastating blast.

Just 72 hours earlier, the first nuclear weapon ever used for warfare fell on Hiroshima. The two attacks killed up to 226,000 people between them.

 

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