Nagasaki
Susan Southard
<b>"[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are."&#8212;<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><b><b>"<i>A</i> devastating read that highlights man's capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people."&#8212;<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle<br></i></b>"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945." &#8212;<b><i>The New Yorker<br></i></b></b><br>The enduring impact of a nuclear bomb, told through the stories of those who survived: necessary reading as the threat of nuclear war emerges again. </b><br> <br>On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within...