Hiroshima, Nagasaki survivors 70 years later

August 1945.

The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese towns.

One on Hiroshima on August 6th; another fell on Nagasaki three days later.

More than 200,000 people died; many more had to live with the effects of that attack for the rest of their lives.

Survivors after the atomic bomb. Sumiteru Taniguchi was 16-years old when when the bomb fell on Nagasaki.

"I was thrown to the ground and my back burnt instantaneously. I felt the ground shaking and thought I was going to die. As t…
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