A rebroadcast of a Scene on Radio episode, eighty years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team. What did the cataclysm of 1945 mean in the place where it happened, to the people who lived through it? John Biewen went to Hiroshima and interviewed A-bomb survivors in 1995.
Scene on Radio is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. “Voices of Hiroshima” is a production of Minnesota Public Radio, from American Public Media.
Image: Selections from the 1995 Hiroshima interviews. Photo by John Biewen.