Hiroshima’s Survivors: The Last Generation
In his four-part series “Hiroshima’s Survivors: The Last Generation,” The World’s Patrick Cox introduces listeners to some of the over 250,000 “hibakusha,” or A-bomb survivors still living.
Part 1
Sueko Hada (pictured, right, with her daughter, granddaughters and great granddaughter)
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Part 2
Most of the people killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Japanese but tens of thousands of Koreans were also among the dead.
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Part 3
Most survivors still live in Hiroshima, but some have moved away, to other parts of Japan and other countries. About a thousand survivors live in the United States.
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Part 4
Today, a quarter of a million people are registered as A-bomb survivors. They’re elderly now. What they saw, what they remember, and what they say will help shape how future generations understand nuclear war.
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