(UPDATE) HIROSHIMA, Japan — Just like the dwindling group of survivors now recognized with a Nobel prize, the residents of Hiroshima hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945, now more than ever.
Susumu Ogawa, 84, was five when the bomb dropped by the United States all but obliterated the southwestern Japanese city 79 years ago, and many in his family were among the 140,000 people killed.