Hiroshima is the title of a magazine article written by Pulitzer winner John Hersey that appeared in The New Yorker's issue for August 31, 1946, one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. The article was soon made into a book. The article and book describe the events after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in detail, focusing on the accounts of six individuals: Each account is followed by a brief statement describing how close each person was to the center of the blast. The article consisted of four parts:... Though Collier's Weekly had previously published an account of the bombing, the editors of the New Yorker recognized the impact that the article would have by providing a human face to the victims, and devoted the entire August 31, 1946 edition to it. Although the four chapters were intended for serialization in four consecutive issues of the magazine, the editors decided to devote one entire issue only to it. There were no other articles and none of the magazine's signature cartoons.
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| Author: | John Hersey |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Year published: | 1946 |
| Number of editions: | 11 |