Roosevelt to the potential of an atomic bomb-ordered 1,000 copies. One Princeton resident, Albert Einstein-the scientist who, in 1939, had first alerted U.S. Editorial writers urged readers to get the full story, and in Princeton, New Jersey, even the mayor urged the town’s residents to do likewise. Radio announcers read all 30,000 words aloud over the air. The article, entitled, simply, “Hiroshima,” caused an instant sensation. The details were at once quotidian and ghastly, and Hersey described, for the first time to most readers, the grim effects of radiation poisoning. Writing in a just-the-facts style, made more chilling by understatement, Hersey told the story, hour-by-hour, sometimes minute-by-minute, of six survivors. 31, 1946, a year after Japan’s surrender, the New Yorker published an entire issue devoted to an article by war correspondent John Hersey about the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima. Their worries focused more on whether Russia would get the bomb, or about whether they could find a new car or a house, a job, or a spouse. Many people-millions of veterans returning home, their long-awaiting families-were grateful to have avoided an invasion. Most Americans approved of dropping two atomic bombs on Japan some wished their countrymen had dropped more. ![]() This article is adapted from Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas (Random House, 336 pp., $28, May 2023)īut it had not-not yet. ![]() This article is adapted from Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas (Random House, 336 pp.,, May 2023)
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