Hiroshima Generations: The memory passed on

When the first of the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Marco Werman’s mother was in a WWII prison camp in Indonesia. And, were it not for the bombs, his mom might not have survived the camp.

The US atomic attack on Hiroshima wiped out Sueko Hada’s family, leaving her orphaned at age seven. Now her granddaughter is married to an American and raising their two children in Colorado.

This app simulates the damage of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 70 years ago on another location, such as your hometown.

A chance encounter in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park gives an 87-year-old survivor hope that his memory will live on after he dies.

In the fourth part of a 2005 series on the lingering mental health effects of the atomic bomb, what is the psychological effect of surviving an atomic bomb blast, and the radiation that followed? Researchers say Hiroshima’s survivors, often stuck living in the past, are plagued by their “maximum authority” as direct witnesses and struggle with a “lifelong encounter with death.”