Marking 80 years since U.S. dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
NBC Newsยท2025-08-06 00:30
Every morning at 8:15, the chimes ring out across Hiroshima, marking the moment in 1945 when a US bomber overhead dropped the world's first atomic weapon of war. Here, a signature mushroom cloud rising over widescale death and devastation. The target was this bridge.It's T-shaped, but the bomb veered toward the dome, which after the blast was the only building in a onem radius still standing. Thousands were killed outright. Radioactive black rain, poisoning countless more.Taruko Yahhata was 8 years old that ...