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Mar 29, 2022 · New York : Bantam. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. 116 pages ; 18 cm. An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.
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- By John Hersey
- Worldwide Effects Of Nuclear War
- A Noiseless Flash
- The Fire
- Details Are Being Investigated
- “Nakamura.”
- Panic Grass and Feverfew
- Summary Of Damages And Injuries
- Main Conclusions
- General Comparison Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
- Total Casualties
- Calculations Of The Peak Pressure Of The Blast Wave
- Ground Shock
- Shielding, Or Screening From Blast
- Flash Burn
- Burns
- Blast Injuries
- Radiation Injuries
- The Mechanics Of Nuclear Explosions
- Radioactive Fallout
- Some Conclusions
- Fusion permits the design of weapons of almost limitless power, using materials that are far less costly.
- A Few Selected Quotes Of John Hersey
Title: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Publisher: EFL Club (www.eflclub.com)
Introduction The Mechanics Of Nuclear Explosions Radioactive Fallout Alterations Of The Global Environment Some Conclusions Notes
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant ofice and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At ...
Immediately after die explosion, the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, having run wildly out of the Matsui estate and having looked in wonderment at the bloody soldiers at the mouth of the dugout they had been digging, attached himself sympathetically to an old lady who was walking along in a daze, holding her head with her left hand, supporting a sma...
Early in the evening of the day the bomb exploded, a Japanese naval launch moved slowly up and down the seven rivers of Hiroshima, It stopped here and there to make an announcement —alongside the crowded sandspits, on which hundreds of wounded lay; at the bridges, on which others were crowded; and eventually, as twilight fell, opposite Asano Park A...
“Hello, Toshio!” “Are you all safe?” “Yes,, What about you?” “Yes, we’re all right. My sisters are vomiting, but I’m fine.” Father Kleinsorge began to be thirsty in the dreadful heat, and he did not feel strong enough to go for water again. A little before noon, he saw a Japanese woman handing something out, Soon she came to him and said in a kindl...
On August 18th, twelve days after the bomb burst, Father Kleinsorge set out on foot for Hiroshima from the Novitiate with his papier-mache suitcase in his hand. He had begun to think that this bag, in which he kept his valuables, had a talismanic quality, because of the way he had found it after the explosion, standing handle-side up in the doorway...
Both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki atomic bombs exhibited similar effects. The damages to man-made structures and other inanimate objects was the result in both cities of the following effects of the explosions: Blast, or pressure wave, similar to that of normal explosions. Primary fires, i.e., those fires started instantaneously by the heat radia...
The following are the main conclusions which were reached after thorough examination of the effects of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: No harmful amounts of persistent radioactivity were present after the explosions as determined by: Measurements of the intensity of radioactivity at the time of the investigation; and Failure to find an...
It was not at first apparent to even trained observers visiting the two Japanese cities which of the two bombs had been the most effective. In some respects, Hiroshima looked worse than Nagasaki. The fire damage in Hiroshima was much more complete; the center of the city was hit and everything but the reinforced concrete buildings had virtually dis...
There has been great dificulty in estimating the total casualties in the Japanese cities as a result of the atomic bombing. The extensive destruction of civil installations (hospitals, fire and police department, and government agencies) the state of utter confusion immediately following the explosion, as well as the uncertainty regarding the actua...
Several ingenious methods were used by the various investigators to determine, upon visiting the wrecked cities, what had actually been the peak pressures exerted by the atomic blasts. These pressures were computed for various distances from X, and curves were then plotted which were checked against the theoretical predictions of what the pressures...
The ground shock in most cities was very light. Water pipes still carried water and where leaks were visible they were mainly above ground. Virtually all of the damage to underground utilities was caused by the collapse of buildings rather than by any direct exertion of the blast pressure. This fact of course resulted from the bombs’ having been ex...
In any explosion, a certain amount of protection from blast may be gained by having any large and substantial object between the protected object and the center of the explosion. This shielding effect was noticeable in the atomic explosions, just as in ordinary cases, although the magnitude of the explosions and the fact that they occurred at a con...
As already stated, a characteristic feature of the atomic bomb, which is quite foreign to ordinary explosives, is that a very appreciable fraction of the energy liberated goes into radiant heat and light. For a suficiently large explosion, the flash burn produced by this radiated energy will become the dominant cause of damage, since the area of bu...
Two types of burns were observed. These are generally differentiated as flame or fire burn and so-called flash burn. The early appearance of the flame burn as reported by the Japanese, and the later appearance as observed, was not unusual. The flash burn presented several distinctive features. Marked redness of the affected skin areas appeared almo...
No estimate of the number of deaths or early symptoms due to blast pressure can be made. The pressures developed on the ground under the explosions were not suficient to kill more than those people very near the center of damage (within a few hundred feet at most). Very few cases of ruptured ear drums were noted, and it is the general feeling of th...
As pointed out in another section of this report the radiations from the nuclear explosions which caused injuries to persons were primarily those experienced within the first second after the explosion; a few may have occurred later, but all occurred in the irst minute. The other two general types of radiation, viz., radiation from scattered fissio...
In nuclear explosions, about 90 percent of the energy is released in less than one millionth of a second. Most of this is in the form of the heat and shock waves which produce the damage. It is this immediate and direct explosive power which could devastate the urban centers in a major nuclear war. Compared with the immediate colossal destruction s...
Both the local and worldwide fallout hazards of nuclear explosions depend on a variety of interacting factors: weapon design, explosive force, altitude and latitude of detonation, time of year, and local weather conditions. All present nuclear weapon designs require the splitting of heavy elements like uranium and plutonium. The energy released in ...
We have considered the problems of large-scale nuclear war from the standpoint of the countries not under direct attack, and the dificulties they might encounter in postwar recovery. It is true that most of the horror and tragedy of nuclear war would be visited on the populations subject to direct attack, who would doubtless have to cope with extre...
Note 3: Radioactivity Most familiar natural elements like hydrogen, oxygen, gold, and lead are stable, and enduring unless acted upon by outside forces. But almost all elements can exist in unstable forms. The nuclei of these unstable “isotopes,” as they are called, are “uncomfortable” with the particular mixture of nuclear particles comprising the...
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o’clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women ha...
tr. de G. Belmont Hersey’s Hiroshima tr. de J. G. Vásquez tr. de A. T. Weyland 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 Hiroshima by John Hersey Penguin, London, 1986 I A Noiseless Flash A EXACTLY fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above
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