All 37 Uses of
atom
in
Hiroshima
- A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on 6 August 1945 Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department at 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.†
Chpt 1
- A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors.†
Chpt 1
- There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.†
Chpt 1
- Nor is it probable that any of the survivors happened to be tuned in on a short-wave re-broadcast of an extraordinary announcement by the President of the United States, which identified the new bomb as atomic: 'That bomb had more power than twenty thousand tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British Grand Slam, which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.'†
Chpt 3
- …gas, or a big cluster of incendiaries, or the work of parachutists; but, even if they had known the truth, most of them were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power, which (as the voices on the short wave shouted) no country except the United States, with its industrial know how, its willingness to throw two billion gold dollars into an important wartime gamble, could possibly have developed.†
Chpt 3
- At two minutes after eleven o'clock on the morning of 9 August, the second atomic bomb was dropped, on Nagasaki.†
Chpt 3
- ...the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.
Chpt 3 *atoms = a group of the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means
- 'Oh,' Mrs Nakamura said (she needed nothing more to make her give up thinking, in spite of the atomic bomb, that Japan still had a chance to win the war), 'in that case ….'†
Chpt 3
- Because so many people were suddenly feeling sick nearly a month after the atomic bomb was dropped, an unpleasant rumour began to~ move around, and eventually it made its way to the house in Kabe where Mrs Nakamura lay bald and ill.†
Chpt 4
- It was that the atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima which would give off deadly emanations for seven years; nobody could go there all that time.†
Chpt 4
- Up to this time, Mrs Nakamura and her relatives had been quite resigned and passive about the moral issue of the atomic bomb, but this rumour suddenly aroused them to more hatred and resentment of America than they had felt all through the war.†
Chpt 4
- Japanese physicists, who knew a great deal about atomic fission (one of them owned a cyclotron) worried about lingering radiation at Hiroshima, and in mid-August, not many days after President Truman's disclosure of the type of bomb that had been dropped, they entered the city to make investigations.†
Chpt 4
- Father Cieslik and the rector took him as far as Kobe and a Jesuit from that city took him the rest of the way, with a message from a Kobe doctor to the Mother Superior of the International Hospital: 'Think twice before you give this man blood transfusions, because with atomic— bomb patients we aren't at all sure that if you stick needles in them, they'll stop bleeding.†
Chpt 4
- A doctor who did not know much about these strange manifestations — Father Kleinsorge was one of a handful of atomic patients who had reached Tokyo — came to see him, and to the patient's face he was most encouraging.†
Chpt 4
- Altogether, the Japanese scientists were somewhat amused at the efforts of their conquerors to keep security on atomic fission.†
Chpt 4
- …was back in the hospital; Dr Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality, The lives of these Six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same, What they thought of their experiences and the use of the atomic bomb was, of course, not unanimous.†
Chpt 4
- At the moment the atomic bomb was dropped, the fence fell upon them.†
Chpt 4
- Yes, people of Hiroshima died manly in the atomic bombing, believing that it was for Emperor's sake.†
Chpt 4
- 'The atom bomb,' she would say when asked about it, 'is the size of a matchbox.†
Chpt 4
- Almost every year since 1946, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a Peace Memorial Meeting had been held in a park that the city planners had set aside, during the city's rebuilding, as a center of remembrance, and on August 6, 1955, delegates from all over the world gathered there for the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.†
Chpt 5
- … I met a man one time … [who] said, "I experienced the atomic bomb" — and from then on the conversation changed.†
Chpt 5
- …bitter opinion was that it was the more lightly affected hibakusha and power-hungry politicians who focused on the A-bomb, and that not enough thought was given to the fact that warfare had indiscriminately made victims of Japanese who had suffered atomic and incendiary bombings, Chinese civilians who had been attacked by the Japanese, reluctant young Japanese and American soldiers who were drafted to be killed or maimed, and, yes, Japanese prostitutes and their mixed-blood babies.†
Chpt 5
- She had firsthand knowledge of the cruelty of the atomic bomb, but she felt that more notice should be given to the causes than to the instruments of total war.†
Chpt 5
- Swimming up toward consciousness, he apparently thought he was being rescued, somehow, after the atomic bombing.†
Chpt 5
- He had the body taken to a crematorium; then, that night, it was taken out a back way and was delivered to the American-run Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, on top of a hill to the east of the city.†
Chpt 5
- ON July 1, 1946, before the first anniversary of the bombing, the United States had tested an atomic bomb at the Bikini Atoll.†
Chpt 5
- He was becoming convinced that the collective memory of the hibakusha would be a potent force for peace in the world, and that there ought to be in Hiroshima a center where the experience of the bombing could become the focus of international studies of means to assure that atomic weapons would never be used again.†
Chpt 5
- On March 5, 1949, the memorandum appeared in the magazine, under the title "Hiroshima's Idea" — an idea that, Cousins' introductory note said, "the editors enthusiastically endorse and with which they will associate themselves": The people of Hiroshima, aroused from the daze that followed the atomic bombing of their city on August 6, 1945, know themselves to have been part of a laboratory experiment which proved the long-time thesis of peacemakers.†
Chpt 5
- ON September 23, 1949, Moscow Radio announced that the Soviet Union had developed on atomic bomb.†
Chpt 5
- … Virginia's Senator A. Willis Robertson rose and declared himself "dumbfounded yet inspired" that a man "whom we tried to kill with an atomic bomb came to the Senate floor and, offering up thanks to the same God we worship, thanked Him for America's great spiritual heritage, and then asked God to bless every member of the Senate."†
Chpt 5
- He then applied to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which had been set up to study the radiation aftereffects of the bomb — aftereffects that those who made the decision to drop the bomb had utterly failed to foresee.†
Chpt 5
- IN October 1952, Great Britain conducted its first test of an atomic bomb and the United States its first of a hydrogen bomb.†
Chpt 5
- Five thousand delegates attended the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.†
Chpt 5
- While he was away on this last trip, a national organization called Nihon Gensuikyo, the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, had come into being, and there had been a surge of activity pushing the Diet for medical care for hibakusha.†
Chpt 5
- Koko eventually transferred to American University, in Washington, D.C. There she fell in love with a Chinese-American and became engaged to marry him, but her fiance's father, a doctor, said that because she had been exposed to the atomic bomb she couldn't bear a normal child, and he forbade the marriage.†
Chpt 5
- In 1964, a deeper division came about, when Communist infiltration of Gensuikyo caused the Socialists and the trade unions to pull out and form Gensuikin, the Japan Congress against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.†
Chpt 5
- Its principal project in the seventies had been to arrange a series of adoptions of orphans and abandoned Japanese babies, who had nothing particularly to do with the atomic bomb.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(atom) the smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means; comprised of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by orbiting electrons