Ghosts of Hiroshima

No one recognized the flashes of bright light that filled the sky. The blast wave that followed seemed to strike with no sound at all. In that silence came the dawn of atomic death for two hundred thousand souls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with intervie...

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Main Author: Pellegrino, Charles R. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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300 |a 313 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 24 cm 
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500 |a "Soon to be a major motion picture from James Cameron" -- Cover. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue: By accidental connections, or by spooky action at a distance? -- Chapter 1: sunrise -- Chapter 2: Butterfly, butterfly -- Chapter 3: profiles of the future -- Chapter 4: neutron star -- Chapter 5: surfing the improbability curve -- Chapter 6: all this has happened before; all this may happen again -- Chapter 7: the fallen sky -- Chapter 8: is it dusk already? -- Epilogue: island in the stream of stars -- The shadow people project -- Appendix: key eyewitnesses (alphabetic guide). 
520 |a No one recognized the flashes of bright light that filled the sky. The blast wave that followed seemed to strike with no sound at all. In that silence came the dawn of atomic death for two hundred thousand souls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, this is an immediate account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events, during which our modern civilization entered a nuclear adolescence. 
650 0 |a Atomic bomb victims  |z Japan. 
650 0 |a Atomic bomb  |x Social aspects  |z Japan  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a World War, 1939-1945  |z Japan. 
650 0 |a Forensic archaeology  |z Japan. 
651 0 |a Hiroshima-shi (Japan)  |x History  |y Bombardment, 1945  |v Personal narratives, Japanese. 
651 0 |a Nagasaki-shi (Japan)  |x History  |y Bombardment, 1945  |v Personal narratives, Japanese. 
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