It put an end to any hope the Soviets would negotiate a favourable surrender for Japan. Many historians say the bombings did not lead to the Japanese surrender, and the Soviet declaration of war on Japan two days later was a bigger shock. Keiko said the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and another at Nagasaki three days later, which killed 70,000 more, were war crimes. Seventy years later, she tells her story.
Tomiko Matsumoto was 14 when an atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.
