The Lost Hiroshima Memoir

Confidante of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Wrote Defamatory Book About Hiroshima Pilot Who Expressed Anguish over Dropping of Atomic Bomb

In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations and asking them for forgiveness. The […] The post Confidante of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Wrote Defamatory Book About Hiroshima Pilot Who Expr…

The lost Hiroshima memoir

At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a minister who presided over a Methodist church in Hiroshima, was two miles outside the city, when a tremendous flash occurred in the sky. Uninjured by the blast, he rushed toward his home and his family, passing hordes of the dead and the gravely […]

On this day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 117,000 in 1945

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 6: 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia, and Serbia declared war on Germany in World War One. 1926 – American Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, taking just over 14 hours. 1932 – The first annual film festival began in Venice. Italy, France, Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union took part. 1945 – The U.S. Air Force dropp…