Hersey’s hiroshima

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history

The devastating attack on Japan’s capital set a terrible new precedent for aerial mass destruction

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

M.G. Sheftall

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