Toshiko Tanaka was 6 and waiting under a cherry blossom tree for a school friend in Hiroshima's hilly Ushida neighborhood when an atomic bomb dropped by the United States detonated in skies just 2.3 kilometers away on Aug. 6, 1945."Someone shouted 'An enemy plane!' and I looked up to see one flying over. Suddenly, there was a great light, and I instinctively covered my face with my arm. My right arm, my head and the back of my neck were burned," the now 85-year-old recalled from her home a few hundred meters from the same spot."I was crying in the darkness after the flash and not knowing wh…READ FULL ARTICLE
