Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story

by Anthony Drago

You can’t imagine how awful it is unless you live through it . . . You have to feel the awful heat . . . the terrible stink . . . the agony, confusion and the utter helplessness. You have to see people roasted alive before your eyes. Hear living flesh pop and sizzle like a pork chop. See women and babies, with their eyes melted out. You have to see these tortured, helpless people . . . convulsed with agony. Whimpering for doctors who never come. Crying for food and water . . . until their swollen tongues mercifully silence their croaking voices.2 If the radio audience had any questions about what it was like to experience an atomic bomb, that should have cleared them up.