Friday, August 07, 2015

Hiroshima: the true account of hell on earth...

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms; the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima," said Pablo Picasso.

On August 6 – at 8.15am local time, to be precise – It will be exactly 70 years since a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (nicknamed Little Boy by the American bombers) was dropped on Hiroshoma, killing more than 100,000 Japanese men, women and children instantly.

To mark the anniversary, Penguin has republished an account written in the immediate aftermath and first published in the New Yorker in 1946. What a grimly fascinating and moving read this 98-page account from John Hersey is; it's easy to see why it was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a panel from New York University.

Hersey, who was 32 at the time, has an eye for detail and a novelist's sensibilities. This son of a pair of missionaries was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel A Bell for Adano and served as secretary to the Nobel winner Sinclair Lewis. He talked to survivors of the bomb: six for whom fate, chance, whatever you wish to call it, was on their side. Full story...

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