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On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb is dropped from an American plane on the 245,000 residents of Hiroshima, Japan. Most of the city is destroyed and thousands of its inhabitants die. Some of its citizens survive and suffer the debilitating effects of terrible burns and radiation illness. The lives of six of those survivors are recounted in the days following the bombing.... More

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  Chapter One - “A Noiseless Flash”
  Chapter Two - “The Fire”
  Chapter Three - “Details Are Being Investigated”
  Chapter Four - “Panic Grass and Feverfew”
  Chapter Five - “The Aftermath”
 

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