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elleng

(141,926 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2025, 08:59 PM Aug 2025

*Atomic People airs Monday, August 4 at 10pm on WETA PBS or stream on WETA+.

about survivors

A powerful new BAFTA Award-winning documentary features the firsthand testimony of Japanese survivors of the atomic blasts that devastated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later.

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*Atomic People airs Monday, August 4 at 10pm on WETA PBS or stream on WETA+. (Original Post) elleng Aug 2025 OP

My father-in-law witnessed an atomic bomb blast up close and personal. hunter Aug 2025 #1

plus, PBS just posted it to their youtube channel today eShirl Aug 2025 #2

hunter

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1. My father-in-law witnessed an atomic bomb blast up close and personal.

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Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:27 PM

Aug 2025

He was a military guinea pig in U.S.A. nuclear weapons testing and was sworn to secrecy. He didn't speak of it, even after President Clinton allowed it, until my wife's mom opened some of his VA mail about possible compensation.

He's still with us. Many of the young men he marched around with in the radioactive dust were not so fortunate.

eShirl

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2. plus, PBS just posted it to their youtube channel today

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:52 PM

Aug 2025

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