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World Service,30 Jul 1999,4 mins

Surviving Hiroshima

My Century

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"The mushroom cloud was rising higher and higher, and from the middle of the mushroom cloud the flame was shooting up and when I saw that, it made me really fearful." Mitsuo Tomozawa was only 15 when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown, Hiroshima. He says he was lucky to survive and was able to help people by shutting off his mind from the fear, anger and sadness.

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