Just as I planned to travel to Japan the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the whole world was transformed, "recalls Lin.
打算飄洋過海去留學時，正巧美軍在廣島、長崎丟下兩顆原子彈，世界就變了」，林枝木回憶道。原子彈炸毀了日本人的迷夢，也炸斷了他的讀書之路，扭轉了一生的發展方向。