Taoiseach ‘Profoundly Touched’ by the Testimony of Hiroshima Survivor in Japan
On a fateful sunny morning in August 1945, an atomic bomb weighing 4,400kg was unleashed on Hiroshima by a U.S. warplane. Just 43 seconds later, eight-year-old Teruko Yahata was playing in her garden when the bomb detonated 600 meters above the city. "The first sign of the enormity of what had just happened," she recounted to Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Friday, "was the sky suddenly lit up in a blinding 'bluish-white' light."
Moments later, a dark nuclear cloud ascended, which Ms. Yahata described as "as if the heavens…