Nagasaki

A powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived
 
On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan’s southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured.

Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha (“bomb-affected people”) and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together dramatic eyewitness accounts with searing analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States and Japan.
 
A gripping narrative of human resilience, Nagasaki will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.

O relatare puternica si neclintita a impactului durabil al razboiului nuclear, relatata prin povestile celor care au supravietuit La 9 august 1945, la trei zile dupa bombardamentul atomic de la Hiroshima, Statele Unite au aruncat o a doua bomba atomica asupra Nagasaki, un mic port oras de pe cea mai sudica insula a Japoniei. Aproximativ 74.000 de persoane au murit in primele cinci luni si alte 75.000 au fost ranite. Publicat la a saptesprezecea aniversare a bombardamentului, Nagasaki duce cititorii din dimineata bombardamentului in oras astazi, povestind experientele directe ale a cinci supravietuitori, toti erau adolescenti in momentul devastarii.