hundred thousand people died either directly in the blasts or later due to radiation poisoning ortiz sean thomas reports. sixty five years ago sumi taro taniguchi was enjoying a simple morning bicycle ride when in a tragic instant his life was changed forever. i was thrown to the ground and i didn't if using sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to die that it was important to go on living. at first noticed his bicycle had been twisted and bent out of shape but has he started to move he began to realize the severity of his own condition right up there. on my left shoulder in my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my body. eleven year old yoshi kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning. it's eleven o two i saw the flush of flights and give to the floor to cover my hand eyes and ears there was a wave in our entire house crashed over us yoshiko and his brothers crawled from the rubble and went into the city to look for their father who worked at the mitsubishi munitions plant close to the heart of the