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Memorial Cenotaph for A-bomb victims under construction in May 1952, in what is now the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. In the background, the Atomic Bomb Dome rises over the roofs of shacks built on the city's ruins.
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Journalists from Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Romania interview an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima in November 2012. The international media have helped the hibakusha tell their stories and broadcast their antinuclear message around the world.
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One month after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Harada Sadanori and his wife Kimiko feed their dairy cows before bidding farewell to their livestock and their livelihood. High levels of radioactivity forced the evacuation of the entire village of Iitate, located 40 kilometers from the site of the accident.
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A former worker at the Savannah River Site, which produced nuclear materials for the US Army, testifies about the health effects of radiation exposure at a 2001 Department of Energy hearing in Aiken, South Carolina.
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Two placards are all that remains of a village in the Gomel region of Belarus, where 185 people lived until 1987. Authorities had all 67 homes bulldozed after detecting high levels of radiation in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster (2001 photo).
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