Status Updates From Hiroshima

'“I shall not dwell on the past. It is as if I had been given a spare life when I survived the A-bomb. But I prefer not to look back. I shall keep moving forward.”'

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Illustrated (p. 142). Andrii Ponomarenko. Kindle Edition.

...Dr. Sasaki had come to be able to live with his one bitter regret: that in the shambles of the Red Cross Hospital in those first days after the bombing it had not been possible, beyond a certain point, to keep track of the identities of those whose corpses were dragged out to the mass cremations, with the result that nameless souls might still, all these years later, be hovering there, unattended and dissatisfied.

"Altogether, the Japanese scientists were somewhat amused at the efforts of their conquerors to keep security on atomic fission."

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Illustrated (p. 93). Andrii Ponomarenko. Kindle Edition.

"ABOUT a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumor reached Hiroshima—that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two."

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Illustrated (p. 71). Andrii Ponomarenko. Kindle Edition.

"...if they had known the truth, most of them were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power, which (as the voices on the shortwave shouted) no country except the United States, with its industrial know-how, its willingness to throw two billion gold dollars into an important wartime gamble, could possibly have developed."

Fascinating recollection from survivors. Important read.

"He called to passers-by running away in the street to help him lift it, but nobody paid any attention, and he had to leave the buried ones to die."

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Illustrated (p. 34). Andrii Ponomarenko. Kindle Edition.

"There was no sound of planes. The morning was still; the place was cool and pleasant."

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. Illustrated (p. 10). Andrii Ponomarenko. Kindle Edition.