It was the night of August 9, 1945, merely hours after the US had unleashed the second atomic bomb on top of the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Dense fog blanketed the landscape, shrouding the treacherous ...

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On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...

Hayawo Kiyama, now an 89-year-old Los Osos resident, was 8 and fishing with his widowed aunt on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, when they witnessed the bombing of Nagasaki. He later became a daito ryu ...