Nakamura was 21-years old and was hanging laundry outside around 11am when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. She says she was 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) from the epicentre –– a little beyond what experts call the area of “total destruction.”

The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on August 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima that killed 140,000.

U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. An early newspaper account said “the obliterating blast” had “destroyed 60 per cent of the Japanese city.” “Practically all living things — human and animal — were ‘literally seared to death’ by the new weapon loosed against the industrial and military city,