From Global News.

Devastation on Aug. 9, 1945 when the United States detonated a second atomic bomb, this time over Nagasaki, Japan.

Temuri Tanaka was there. He tells Global News he remembers the explosion, a blast of light and heat that killed around 27,000 people. More than double that died from what they couldn’t see — radiation. Those are the low estimates.

No country has detonated a nuclear bomb in anger since then, though there have been many tests.

Tanaka points out a mistake could cause a nuclear explosion and lead to war. “To avoid that, country’s with nuclear weapons must disarm,” he says.

Global’s Nathaniel Dove reports.

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