United Nations Radio

Atomic bomb survivors

It's been more than 60 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. The Japanese word for the survivors of those attacks is "Hibakusha" which literally translates as "a person who has been bombed." Toshiko Tanaka, Hiro Iso and Takehisa Yamamoto were very young when their hometown, Hiroshima, was bombed on August 6, 1945. They recently visited UN headquarters to share their life stories-and their life-long passion to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Producer/Presenter: Dianne Penn

duration: 5'03