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Mother Bernardine Goulter

‘The explosion in the air was like the sun bursting’

A column of smoke rises more than 20,000 feet in the air over Nagasaki following the detonation of the atomic bomb on August 9 1945 (AP Photo/USAF)

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Mother Bernardine Goulter survived the atomic bomb at Nagasaki. Here we publish her account