The Endless Suffering of Nuclear Victims
The impact of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima-Nagasaki, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, the leakage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant should be strong reasons for the use of nuclear cannot be arbitrary.
Ruins of buildings in Hiroshima, one month after the bombing on August 6, 1945.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, 80, was playing in front of his house when he saw a flash of light in the sky on August 6, 1945. That morning, a United States B-29 bomber dropped a nuclear bomb weighing 15 kilotons on Hiroshima. The incident changed the lives of Mimaki and the entire population of Japan forever.
Around 60,000 people died on that day and the fatalities increased to 140,000 at the end of 1945. Meanwhile, in Nagasaki, about 74,000 people died. Mimaki, who was then three years old, still remembers how he was rushed away by his family after the whole city was ablaze and the air filled with radioactive ash.