The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
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- Synopsis
- Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on earth forever. At the narrative's core are the eyewitness accounts of the people who experienced the effects of the atomic explosions firsthand. Thirty people are known to have fled Hiroshima for the imagined safety of Nagasaki--where they arrived just in time to survive yet another atomic bomb. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who is still alive, is the only person known to have survived the full effects of the blast at Ground Zero both times. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell of a building in which he had been standing, placing him and the small group of people standing with him in a shock cocoon, while the entire office building disappeared around them. Almost everything we know about the bombing turns out to be wrong. For all its fury the Hiroshima bomb had been compromised during a preflight test. Only hours before Enola Gay took off, on August 6, physicist Luis Alvarez juiced up the weakened bomb with three plugs of polonium and beryllium (the nuclear equivalent of inserting nitrous oxide into a race car's engine). A stunning "you are there" time capsule, The Last Train from Hiroshima is enriched by the author's scientific authority and close relationship with the bombs' survivors, making his account the most gripping ever written.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 368 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805087963
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 08/19/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Charles Pellegrino
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Jamie Yates
- Proofread By:
- mary stephens
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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