80 years since US dropped atomic bombs on Japan | BBC News

80 years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors continue to warn against the use of nuclear weapons.

It is thought that around 140,000 of Hiroshima's 350,000 population were killed in the atomic blast and at least 74,000 people died in Nagasaki.

The BBC's Japan Correspondent Shaimaa Khalil has spent time in Hiroshima speaking to survivors - and the students trying to keep the stories alive.

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