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Laura Goehler

REVEALED: Hiroshima survivors warn g7 leaders about using nuclear bombs | Vintage Vibes

Sadae Kasaoka shows pictures that students drew of her recollection of what happened in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 [Laura Goehler/Al Jazeera]

Hiroshima, Japan – “It looked like a bright orange light, like the first sunrise of the year,” says Sadae Kasaoka, remembering the moment when the first nuclear bomb to ever be used was dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Now 90, she was 12 years old that August day at the tail end of World War II, but she still remembers it vividly.

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