Hiroshima

[JerryBoBerry]

Seventy years ago, a year after the Hiroshima bombing, The New Yorker devoted its entire contents to a single article for the first and only time in its history.

Normally they are a pay site, but they opened up that article to be read for free. It's a pretty powerful telling of the devastation involved.

HIROSHIMA
By John Hersey


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk...

 

[Jesse0328]

This clip from the 1995 documentary "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" provides a brief overview on the events leading up to the August 1945 bombings The whole documentary in my opinion is worth a watch. The restoration work that the producer did on old atomic test footage is incredible.

I just checked, and the film is not on Netflix anymore, but it is on Hulu.