Never again Hiroshima

When Little Boy exploded above the city, tens of thousands of people were burned to death, crushed or buried alive by collapsing buildings, or bludgeoned by flying debris. Those directly under the bomb’s hypocenter were incinerated, instantaneously erased from existence. Many blast survivors—supposedly the lucky ones—suffered from agonizing radiation poisoning and died by the hundreds in the months that followed. The city of Hiroshima initially estimated that more than 42,000 civilians had died from the bombing. Within a year, that estimate would rise to 100,000. It has since been calculated that as many as 280,000 people may have died by the end of 1945 from effects of the bomb, although the exact number will never be known. In the decades since, human remains have been regularly uncovered in the city’s ground, and are still uncovered today. “You dig two feet and there are bones,” says Hiroshima Prefecture governor Hidehiko Yuzaki. “We’re living on that. Not only near the epicenter [of the blast], but across the city.” It was a massacre of biblical proportions. Even today—seventy-five years after the bombing—the name Hiroshima conjures up images of fiery nuclear holocaust and sends chills down spines around the world. Lesley Blume Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world (English Edition) . Scribe Publications Pty Ltd. Edizione del Kindle.