Hiroshima
August 6, 2015 11:43 AM Subscribe
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.
From the August 31, 1946 issue of the New Yorker.
From the August 31, 1946 issue of the New Yorker.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe put this in the Hiroshima post from just a couple days ago? -- LobsterMitten
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