Once Kondo realized the lasting effects that had been wrought by the American attack, she vowed revenge. In the days and weeks following, many more became sick from radiation poisoning. In total, hundreds of thousands of people were killed and more were injured upon impact. Shortly after the bombs were dropped, Japan's Emperor Hirohito surrendered, ending World War II. 'With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces,' President Harry Truman said as he addressed the nation after the first attack on Hiroshima. 9, 1945, the United States dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Three days after dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, on Aug. She said when she was out from the house, the environment was completely different. 'She moved little by little and she made a little hole,' Kondo told NPR's Weekend Editionof her mother's attempts to escape. She was trapped beneath the rubble with her mother. 'Suddenly, the whole house crashed,' Kondo recounts.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, had left earlier that morning. Koko Kondo was 8 months old and with her mother when the first atomic bomb hit her home city of Hiroshima on Aug.
