Miss Toshiko Sasaki, an office clerk, is leaning over to speak to a fellow worker when she is blasted out of her desk and trapped under heavy bookcases. Hatsuyo Nakamura is watching her neighbor's house and overseeing her sleeping children all end up covered in debris when their house is destroyed. The lives of six of those survivors are recounted in the days following the bombing. Some of its citizens survive and suffer the debilitating effects of terrible burns and radiation illness. Most of the city is destroyed and thousands of its inhabitants die. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb is dropped from an American plane on the 245,000 residents of Hiroshima, Japan.
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