Status Updates From Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost M...

this would be blatant US-absolving-itself-of-blame-for-the-atomic-bomb propaganda if it weren’t written by this actual japanese guy who experienced the thing. sort of bizarre but always worth reading people’s own written accounts of things they experienced

First lines | “KIYOSHI TANIMOTO AND THE MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA By David Corn // No one knew what it was. There was an intense flash in the sky and then a wave of annihilation that leveled all structures and triggered fires everywhere.”