New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- He was only three. Trapped under debris, bleeding from broken glass, and alone in a city reduced to rubble. He tried to scream, "Mommy, help!", but his voice didn't come out. It took decades before Kunihiko Iida could speak about what happened that morning in August 1945.
Now 83, Iida is one of the few remaining survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. And after six decades of silence, he's devoting his later years to telling the world what he witnessed, in the hope that no one else will ever have to.
Eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many survivors, known in Japan as hibakusha, are breaking their silence. As nuclear threats rise again and global leaders appear more accepting of atomic wea...
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