The Scars of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima nuclear war

Below is a story of a Japanese pensioner, who survived the Nagasaki bomb on 9^th August, 1945. On this day, when the Americans dropped a second bomb three days later after their first in Hiroshima, Sumitery Taniguchi was hit and thrown from his bicycle, Sumitery Taniguchi, 86, was just 16 years old, when his teenage body was nearly torn apart by the devastating blast.

Today, 70 years on, he reveals his scars in his struggle against nuclear arms. He is still unable to fully straighten his left arm, while his wife rubs moisturizing cream onto his scars every morning to reduce the irritation. Three of his ribs half rotted away following the attack and still press against his lungs, leaving unnatural dents and swellings in his scrawny chest.

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