The only photos from Hiroshima, Aug. 6. 1945

On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, a photographer roamed through the rubble of Hiroshima. His images were the only ones taken that day of people who had been exposed to the atomic blast. Nearly half a century later, Yoshito Matsushige told his story to Max McCoy, a reporter visiting from Kansas. McCoy speaks with host Marco Werman about the photographer who captured Hiroshima on film that day.

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