It was seventy-five years ago today that the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Photograph found in Honkawa Elementary School in 2013 of the Hiroshima atom bomb cloud, believed to have been taken about 30 minutes after
detonation of about 10km (6 miles) east of the hypocentre.
Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an
American writer and journalist. His work, Hiroshima, exposed lies the US told about the nuclear event (links below). His account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century. He is considered one of the earliest
practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage.
John Hersey, World War II, 1944
Hideko Tamura Snider, who has written a book entitled One Sunny Day: A Child's Memories of Hiroshima, was ten years old Hiroshima
when the city was destroyed by the atom bomb that day. She survived with
injuries and was ill for some time but her mother did not (link below).
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Net links:
The New Yorker ~ Hiroshima by John Hershey
Washington Post ~ Hersey exposed U.S. lies about Hiroshima
YouTube links:
BBC Studios ~ Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb
CBS ~ Survivor of nuclear attack recounts Hiroshima bombing 75 years later
The Telegraph ~ Hiroshima: 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb (no audio)
Styrous® ~ Thursday, August 6, 2020
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