Caused by Nuclear Weapons. Most people have no real sense of what a nuclear bomb means, but tarumi tanaka does have a sense. He was 13 years old and living in nagasaki when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on his city. He lived about two miles from ground zero, and somehow survived, even though the bomb devastated his neighborhood. Thats just amazing. Two days later, he and his mother visited the epicenter searching to are their family members who live nearby. Heres how he described the scene. This clip is in japanese, so im going to translate this one as well. He says houses were gone, only the steel bars of concrete buildings stood bare and hollow. Steel bars of factories were entirely bent. Everything else was a burnt field. On the way to my aunts house we saw black. Ed bodied all over the place, they probably burned underneath houses that burned down. People who died from severe injuries and burns, they were left on the ground, without being collected. Those who were grave