"Are you from Hiroshima, employers are hesitant"

It is today 75 years ago that an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people.

Three days later, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Journalist Yukiko Duke visited the Morning Studio on Thursday.

- I have my roots in Nagasaki and when you tell someone it is a tenth of a second of silence and you know exactly what that person is thinking, which is "where was your family during the bomb", she says.

Duke says that the bombing still affects the urban population today.

- This is very much a feature of Japan and its professional life. If you have roots from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, employers are hesitant to hire someone because you may have a latent cancer that may appear.

Martin Goliath, a researcher on nuclear weapons issues at the Swedish Defense Research Agency, was also part of the Morning Studio.

- Hiroshima and Nagasaki are places that are completely harmless to live in today. But the effects could have been worse if the explosions had taken place on the ground and received the radioactive coating that remained, he says.