Plattsburgh Public Library director Stanley A. Ransom stands
with a display of books and other items related to the 1945
atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Plattsburgh
The Plattsburgh Public Library, 19 Oak St., currently has a
display of books and other items relating to the atomic bomb
explosions that took place in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki Aug. 6, 1945, and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively. Among
the displays are items collected by library director Stanley A.
Ransom while on duty with the U.S. Army of Occupation in 1947.
Ransom toured the Nagasaki site that year. “Nothing seemed to
have been done to clean up the city at that time,” recalled
Ransom. “The machine gun factory was a heap of twisted metal
girders. The school and hospital were concrete shells, with all
windows and doors gone and debris lying all around. The fronts
of the school and hospital were slammed hard enough to flatten
the front edges.” Ransom toured the hospital and picked up from
the floor two sets of yen co