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Eyewitness Hiroshima: First-Hand Accounts of the Atomic Terror That Changed the World

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This book was published in 1995. I liked this book because it was concise, yet explained in chronological manner the development, deployment, and aftermath of the first bomb in history. At 250 pages, it is a fairly quick read. Hiroshima was the first city to be bombed with an atomic bomb (August 6, 1945). This book presents in very readable fashion, the entire story of the development of the atomic bomb, the race (between Germany and the Allies for the bomb), the actual development of the two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, and the aftermath of the bomb on the landscape and more importantly, the people of Hiroshima. Radiation disease is described in detail: flesh falling off stricken bodies, intestinal tracts stripped of mucosa, skin lesions, hair falling out, blindness, cancers, etc. The descriptions of the affected are terrible to imagine, and yet, please consider that this is "just" an atomic bomb. The bombs of today are thousands of times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. While there have only been two atomic bombs dropped, I don't believe these will be the only atomic/nuclear bombs used in the history of mankind. Rogue terroristic organizations, or failing dictatorships will eventually get their hands on a bomb and use it. God help us when this happens.

konedog