By confronting us with the horrors of what they experienced, the hibakusha provide us with the most urgent, unflinching and unequivocal warning possible about where nuclear escalation may lead.

Atomic People does not mark a major anniversary. It is simply that time is running out for the long-silent survivors to tell their stories, to have them heard and to let them function as a warning from history.

A horrifying watch from start to finish.

I’m always intrigued by stories about people who survived a massive trauma in their youth and then went on to live to a very old age.