@sbsnews_au: Eighty years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb for the first time on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by a strike on Nagasaki three days later. An estimated 214,000 lives were lost in the two bombings by the end of 1945, with a majority of deaths occurring in Hiroshima, while thousands more died later from radiation poisoning. A woman who narrowly escaped the Hiroshima bombing has a warning about the terrible cost of nuclear war. The story has been produced in collaboration with SBS Japanese. Read more @sbsnews_au (link in bio).

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Wednesday 06 August 2025 02:39:54 GMT