Hearing Hiroshima (Rebroadcast)
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The Impact of the a-Bomb on Hibaksha
Koonizo Hatanaka's daughter was born in 1946 with microcephaly. He thinks radiation also caused the cancer that killed his wife in 1978. After 50 years, she had the intellect and IQ of a child two years and three months old. Many Hibaksha lived out their days as poor and alone, outcasts in their own country.
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