The Bells of Nagasaki : A Message of Hope from a Witness, a Doctor

Synopsis

On Thursday, August 9, 1945, at two minutes past eleven in the morning, Nagasaki was wiped out by a plutonium atomic bomb which exploded at a height of five hundred meters over the city. Among the wounded on that fateful day was the young doctor Takashi Nagai, professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki. Nagai succeeded in gathering a tiny group of survivors -- doctors, nurses, and students -- and together they worked heroically for the wounded until they themselves collapsed from exhaustion and atomic sickness. As he lay dying of leukemia, Dr.