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What Today’s Nuclear Arms Race Looks Like to Hiroshima Survivors
Produced by W.J. Hennigan
August 7, 2024

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The threat of a nuclear arms race is building. In an effort to bring light to this new and terrifying nuclear era, Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, and the writer W.J. Hennigan interviewed Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this audio essay, they share stories from two of the survivors they met, Chieko Kiriake and Keiko Ogura, who were just 15 and 8 years old on Aug. 6, 1945.

Portrait of W.J. Hennigan

W.J. Hennigan is a New York Times Opinion correspondent covering the U.S. military and national security issues from Washington, D.C.

 

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