Hiroshima Survivors Tell Their Story - 60 Years After the Bomb Was Dropped 4/28/05
He was 16 years old when a lone American Bomber flew over his city --- and changed the politics of our earth forever. She was only six. They are both against nuclear proliferation.
Dunko Kayashige and Myaji Kawasaki told their stories to a rapt audience this morning. They are guests of Professor Charles Inouye of Tufts University, and hosted at LCHS by Ms. Taylor in Guidance and Donna Boscoe, our Talent Search Coordinator.
On August 6, 1945, a United States Air
Force B-29 aircraft, called the "Enola Gay", dropped the "Little
Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
It was the first atomic bomb ever used in war. It ended
up killing between 130,000 to 150,000 people.
The bomb leveled Hiroshima to the ground. It exploded
with the force of 12,000 tons of TNT. The heat from the explosion exceeded 50
million degrees Fahrenheit at the center of the fireball.
For decades after the bombing, historians, survivors,
and politicians have debated the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
