Fourteen victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki tell their stories.
My husband being a physicist, we lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico (the cradle of the American government's development of atomic weapons) for awhile and I've been to the tiny Bradbury Museum there, across the street from the Starbucks. I've touched a replica of Fat Man.
And as someone from Southern Utah, I'm familiar with the pain and fallout from the Nevada testing. It's a legacy I grew up with. People in my family died.
But those are American stories. Our sacrifices have been documented. We have grieved for our dead and grappled with the consequences.
What happened in Japan, what happened to the people who survived (and the thousands and thousands who didn't) shouldn't ever happen again. Ever.
"Viewer discretion advised." It's difficult to watch. But it should be.
This is what I'm getting all my relatives in Utah for Christmas. I'll cross out 'mommy' and put in the respective relationship. Daughter, cousin, uncle...
