HIROSHIMA, Japan — Standing at the front of a dimly lit room in the basement of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Teruko Yahata's voice broke as she recalled the morning her world changed, on August 6, 1945. 'All of a sudden, the entire sky flashed and was illuminated in bluish-white, as if the heavens had become one huge, fluorescent light,' the 85-year-old, speaking in English, told an audience of British tourists on a recent Tuesday. 'I immediately fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

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