Hiroshima Nagasaki

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than instantly mostly women children and the elderly Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness Yet the bombs were our least abhorrent choice American leaders claimed at the timexand still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese livesHam challenges this view arguing that the bombings when Japan was on its knees were the culmination of a strategic Allied air war on enemy civilians that began in Germany and had till then exacted its most horrific death tolls in Dresden and TokyoHe gives powerful witness to the bombxs destruction through the eyes of eighty survivors from -year-olds forced to work in war factories to wives and children who faced it alone reminding us that these two cities were full of ordinary people who suddenly out of a clear blue summers sky felt the sun fall on their heads.