Today, August 6, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb exploding over Hiroshima. Articles in today’s Washington Post tell of how it took a reporter, John Hersey, walking among the ruins a year later and visiting with the survivors to tell the real story of the suffering it brought. He filled one issue of The New Yorker magazine with 30,000 words titled “Hiroshima.”
“A panel of journalists and critics ranked it first on a list of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century…Many historians and foreign policy experts say its impact was profound enough to help prevent future use of nuclear weapons.”
I’ve not read Hersey’s story but will go back and do so.
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Hiroshima
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