Astonishing first-hand account of the family who SURVIVED Hiroshima... then went on This Is Your Life to meet the desperately repentant US airman who dropped the bomb that killed tens of thousands and changed the world
On the day the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 36-year-old Kiyoshi Tanimoto and his wife and baby daughter were living only three-quarters of a mile from the epicentre.

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- Primary source: Daily Mail
- Published: Aug 2, 2026, 8:44 AM UTC
- Coverage area: Culture & Society
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