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A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike damaged the shell and briefly started a fire.

Many were stationed at blast sites, so the "effects on humans ... their eyes" with their bare hands as they waited for a nuclear bomb to be dropped into the sea behind them is "eerie and nightmarish".

Atomic bomb survivor Mise Seiichiro "The moment it flashed, I covered my ears and eyes, and laid down in front of the organ," Mise recalls. "I then heard a bang, and a powerful blast of wind blew ...

Chieko Watanabe, who died at age 64, in 1993, was paralyzed in the atomic bomb blast when she was 16. She was working in a factory where she was mobilized for the war effort as a student ...