Keiko Ogura

[bomb exploding]

Keiko Ogura was just eight years old when the bomb went off.

Immediately after the blast, she was blown onto the road [body falling] where she lay unconscious.

When I opened my eyes, everywhere was just dark.

Hiroshima burned all night, burned to the ground.

We should not repeat the evil.

Keiko Ogura speaking to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Over our few days in Hiroshima, we visited the sites most affected by the bomb blast, but there was one place in particular that left a lasting impression on me and our associate producer, Frank, and that was the Peace Memorial Museum.

A different death entirely, and there's black rain, radioactive and charcoal-colored, falling over a wide area beyond the city, contaminating people who came in afterward looking for family.

Keiko Ogura talks about that, and then the nuclear shadows.

Explain those for anyone who hasn't seen the photographs.

Thermal radiation bleaches stone and leaves a permanent shadow where a body absorbed it.

Let's go to the testimony.

This is the part of the episode Daniel was most insistent about.

Keiko Ogura was eight years old in 1945, and she was interviewed in February of 2019.

She survived because her father had moved the family about 2.4 kilometers from the hypocenter the previous year.