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The term "atomic bomb literature" came into wide use in the 1960s. [2] Writings affiliated with the genre can include diaries, testimonial or documentary accounts, and fictional works like poetry, dramas, prose writings or manga about the bombings and their aftermath. There are broadly three generations of atomic bomb writers. [1]
Harvey L. Slatin – physicist and inventor who worked on the isolation of plutonium with the Special Engineering Detachment; LaRoy Thompson – Cornell class of 1942, physically assembled the first bomb and flew the practice bombing run at Bikini Island. Later, senior vice president and treasurer of the University of Rochester [11]
Tamiki Hara (原民喜, Hara Tamiki, 15 November 1905 – 13 March 1951) was a Japanese writer and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, known for his works in the atomic bomb literature genre. [ 1 ] Biography
The song "Enola Gay" by British pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is about the B-29 Superfortress bomber that delivered the payload of the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima, and later flew weather reconnaissance for the second mission days later when Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. The song is anti-war, and questions the ...
Summer Flower was first published in June 1947 in the literary magazine Mita Bungaku and in book form in 1949 by Nogaku Shorin. It received the first Takitaro Minakami Award in 1948. [ 1 ] Hara followed Summer Flower with two subsequent sections, From the Ruins ( Haikyou kara ) in November 1947, and Prelude to Annihilation ( Kaimetsu no ...
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988) Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999) Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up (2007) Megawatts and Megatons (2001) My Australian Story: Atomic Testing (2009) The Navajo People and Uranium Mining (2006) Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975)
She was working at the factory when the atomic bomb destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. [3] Hayashi was seriously ill for two months, and suffered afterwards from fragile health. [4] She later studied nursing in a special course the Welfare Faculty for Women attached to the Nagasaki Medical School, [3] but left before graduation. She started ...
Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded. Containing a detailed description of the bomb's effects, the article was a publishing sensation. In plain prose, Hersey described the horrifying aftermath of the atomic device: people with melted eyeballs, or people vaporized, leaving only their shadows etched onto ...