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Stacy Kish

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on sidewalks?

A person's shadow on bank steps in Hiroshima, Japan.

Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning biopic Oppenheimer has reignited public interest in the historic race to develop atomic weapons.

Yet, while the film dwells on J. Robert Oppenheimer's uneasy conscience and his fear of a future nuclear war, being told from his perspective, it doesn't show the direct consequences of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Yet on the streets of the two stricken cities, the horrifying evidence was plain to see. 

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