These Trees Survived Hiroshima, Group Plants Their Seeds Worldwide to Preserve Their Memory
^ The Hiroshima Castle Eucalyptus, an atomic bomb survivor
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'In Japan, an organization is planning how to help ensure the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are remembered for thousands of years, rather than hundreds.
Its plan revolves around the hibakujumoku or the A-bomb-surviving trees of Hiroshima.
With the 80th anniversary of the bombings having just concluded, it’s worth taking a moment to learn about the trees that survived one of our nation’s darkest decisions.
The giant fireball that proceeded the detonation of the atom bomb, if it can believed, couldn’t wipe out all the trees in the blast zone. This eucalyptus tree, for example, was only half a mile from the epicenter.’