Catch up: Atomic People BBC 2

Posted: 1st August 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0021lrg/atomic-people

The decision by the United States to drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities – Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki three days later – was one of the most momentous and destructive in world history.

Now, nearly 80 years later, this unique film gathers the testimony of some of the last ‘Hibakusha’, survivors of the two atomic bombs, before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped.

Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, the film features a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb, while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.