What is Hiroshima (book)?
{{Infobox book | name = Hiroshima | author = [[John Hersey]] | country = Japan | language = English | publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.]] | release_date = 1946 | media_type = | pages = 160 pp | dewey = 940.54/25 19 | congress = D767.25.H6 H4 1989 | oclc = 680840 }} '''''Hiroshima''''' ({{ISBN|0-679-72103-7}}) is a [[magazine]] article written by [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner [[John Hersey]] that appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in August 1946, one year after the [[United States]] dropped an [[atomic bomb]] on the city of [[Hiroshima]], [[Japan]]. The article was soon made into a book. It described how [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|the bombing]] affected the lives of six individuals: *'''Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto:''' a [[Methodism|Methodist]] minister educated in the [[United States]] at [[Emory University]] was 3,500 yards from the center of the explosion; *'''Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura:''' a war widow and seamstress, the mother of three young children was 1350 yards from the center of the explosion; *'''Dr. Masakazu Fujii:''' a prosperous doctor and owner of a private [[hospital]] was 1550 yards from the center of the explosion; *'''Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (Makoto Takakura):''' a [[Jesuit]] priest stationed in the city was 1400 yards from the center of the explosion; *'''Dr. Terufumi Sasaki:''' a young doctor at the [[Red Cross]] hospital was 1650 yards from the center of the explosion; and *'''Miss Toshiko Sasaki (Sister Dominique Sasaki):''' A clerk at the East Asia Tin Works (no relation to Terufumi Sasaki) was 1600 yards from the center of the explosion. Each account is followed by a brief statement describing how close each person was to the center of the blast. ==Related pages== *[[Nuclear or Not?]] *[[Nuclear disasters]] [[Category:History books]] [[Category:Books about nuclear issues]] [[Category:Hiroshima]] [[Category:1940s books]] [[Category:1946 works]]