Tag: atomic bomb

  • Shattering spears and bows

    Shattering spears and bows

    Setsuko Nakamura was 13 years old in 1945, the day American forces dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where she lived.  She recalls the horrific aftermath of that event and still tells her own story of survival and of the death and desolation visited on her city. By the end of…