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I grew up in Los Alamos in the 1980s and 1990s and the detailed history of what happened on the receiving end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still mostly glossed
by brianolson 12y ago
I grew up in Los Alamos in the 1980s and 1990s and the detailed history of what happened on the receiving end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still mostly glossed over. The story told is more about the heroic wartime feat of engineering that was the Manhattan Project. Even now that gets played up more. Since I left they installed a statue of Gen. Groves and Dr. Oppenheimer in one of the parks there.
- matthewmcg 12y agoJohn Hershey's Hiroshima is a good retelling of the horrors of the Little Boy experiment, if you are interested.
- pc2g4d 12y agoI highly recommend Masuji Ibuse's "Black Rain". Historical fiction, but beautiful and eye-opening. Deals with the Hiroshima bombing.