When you think of the city of Hiroshima, what comes to your mind? Atomic bomb, nuclear weapons, a cloud rising ever higher into the sky, forming an enormous mushroom? That was Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. To the people of that city, it must have looked like the end of the world, and for many of them it was. However, for those who came into contact with the radiation, the nightmare was just beginning. Diseases and deformities manifested themselves years, even decades after Little Boy exploded. Even today, the horrors are not over. Hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, now are worried about the onset of cancer. No one knows what effect the radiation will have. This is what I learned in my American textbook. There was a city in western Japan that contained a large number
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