Hiroshima

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1. gordon_freemanJul 2025
   Reading this makes me so sad and reminded me of a book I read years ago: Hiroshima by John Hersey - about the first-person narrative account of survivors who witnessed the impact of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that morning.
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2. trescenziOct 2024
   The book Hiroshima by John Hersey has many accounts like this. It’s a short read and follows six people and covers the first year after the bombing. I’d highly recommend reading it if such accounts are interesting to you.
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3. frozenbitJun 2024
   It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.
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4. dotsamJul 2023
   Threads is one of the most memorable things I have watched. It is incredibly dark and unremittingly bleak.

   Books that informed my understanding of nuclear war and that I recommend are: Hiroshima by John Hersey, Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, The Doomsday Machine by (recently deceased) Daniel Ellsberg.

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5. throwaway5487Jul 2023
   For those interested, I believe John Hersey’s Hiroshima is still the leading English language work on the experiences of hibakusha during the bombings and their immediate aftermath.
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6. durkieJul 2023
   In light of the release of Oppenheimer, people have been talking about, basically, the other side of the development of atomic weapons.

   John Hersey's "Hiroshima" article from the August 23, 1946 edition of the New Yorker came up as the definitive piece on the immediate impact of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and it is a gripping read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

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