A young woman who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, August 1945.[640×877]

Ezekiel0505

What about radiation sickness? Did she survive?
sprmario1

I bet she’s happy to be alive with that smile on her face .
Bravo-Six-Nero

Looking over at her neighbours house who used to keep her up all night playing the drums
Clown45

Absolutely can’t fathom smiling at this place and time.
SuperAids00

Do you think of social media existed back then she’d make that her profile pic?
BoBdaButcher

They say that the radiation from that blast probably lasted for 4 months.
AyeAye_Kane

she looks unnervingly happy considering what just happened
FartyMarty69

Is this before or after she grew a tail and a third leg?
biggoof

Probably the last photo of her hair and eyebrows…
I_am_not_hon_jawley

I thought radiation destroyed film? Was this picture really taken like day of? Or was this a reenactment?
Im_not_smelling_that

What the hell she smiling about?
rockvillejoe99

I wonder what their life expectancies were. If they reached old age or died from radiation poisoning earlier on
ima_bearcat

So I’m confused, how is the building she’s crawling out from underneath in shambles but the building behind her looks completely unscathed?
foxytaz25

No she didn’t she prob died from radiation
muri_17

More about the photographer here
Hugh_Jampton

Lots of armchair nuclear physists in this thread
Lord_Augastus

Funny how USA is still the only country to have used nukes, not once but twice and on a civilian population…
HHWKUL

Was bombed so hard she got teleported to a Normandy town

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