NEW YORK—Yasuaki Yamashita survived the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. He shared his story with a library full of teenagers at Jane Addams High School in the Bronx on Monday, one of 16 schools he will visit across the city with other survivors this week.
“If you can imagine, [it was like] 1,000 lightning [bolts] at the same time,” recalled Yamashita, who was six years old when the bomb dropped, destroying his home. “My mother put me down on the floor and covered me with her body … when we stand up, there is no window, there is no anything, just columns.”