Ron Peters's Reviews > Hiroshima

I looked at this small book on and off for years but never read it. This is a quick and easy read, but impactful. Hersey tells the dramatic and moving stories of six survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, originally published in the New Yorker in August 1946. In Japan, survivors of the only two atomic bombs ever dropped on humans are called the hibakusha. Their story is important because the average age of survivors is 83 and their number is in the decline: https://is.gd/S48nTe. Their story is also important because, with the advent of climate change and COVID-19, attention is flagging on the existential problem of nuclear proliferation. Reading these stories will remind everyone of the horror we must avert by working toward the reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.