A-bomb victim shows dark mark left on arm after treatment

A-bomb victim shows dark mark left on arm after treatment

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yoshitaka Samejima (R) shows in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 20, 2014, dark marks left on his right arm following medical treatment long after exposure to radiation from the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, in 1945, as his wife looks on.

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