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.”

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,

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.