Published: 13 July, 2009, 16:52
Edited: 6 January, 2010, 22:41
Once concealed from the public, the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima has unveiled another aspect of its after effects – radiation poisoning.
Never before had humanity cumulated research and development with exclusively destructive purposes. A weapon that kills twice – first by explosion, and then by poisoning – was used on Japanese soil.
On the 64th anniversary of the bombings RT offers an in-depth-report on the sufferings of the victims.
Its hero – Doctor Shuntaro Hida, an 89-year-old survivor of the bombing – knows every horrible detail of the event after the decades he spent taking care of other survivors.
Watch the documentary Atomic Wounds on August 5, 6 on RT.