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“The year I was born, the war began. The whole time I was little there were air raids all the time. It was awful but I had my mommy there, so it was nice; I was so happy. I saw the atomic bomb. I was four then. The atomic bomb was the last thing that happened during the war and no more bad things have happened since then; but I don’t have my mommy anymore. So even if it isn’t bad anymore, I’m not happy.”

Impacta leer que para el gobierno estadounidense durante la presidencia de Truman, la bomba fue una "decepción" en cuanto a diseño, menos poderosa de lo esperado. Pellegrino da a conocer esta afirmación junto a diagramas que muestran el antes y el después de lo que fue uno de los muchos barrios de Hiroshima de los cuales casi nada quedó en pie.

The core was assembled from the ash of stars that had lived and died long before the oldest mountains of the moon were born.