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If you want to read an account of a real-life event that will break your heart and touch you forever, I recommend this diary kept by a doctor in Hiroshima, Japan after the atom bomb was dropped on his city.
I felt like I was right there with the doctor as he puzzled over the results of the bombing on his neighbors, family, friends, and fellow members of the Hiroshima community, and as he tried to treat both the initial burns and injuries they suffered as well as the radiation poisoning that devel ...more
I felt like I was right there with the doctor as he puzzled over the results of the bombing on his neighbors, family, friends, and fellow members of the Hiroshima community, and as he tried to treat both the initial burns and injuries they suffered as well as the radiation poisoning that devel ...more
A greater understanding of atomic warfare.
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