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It's the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima. In the aftermath of the attack, John Hersey, an American journalist, visited the city and spoke to survivors. He went on to write a long and influential article for the @NewYorker. https://bbc.in/30xAjxt
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At the time of the 70th anniversary, Radio 4's @CSRaphael1 wrote about Hersey's hugely important examination of the bombing of Hiroshima https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894
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You can read John Hersey's long article, simply titled 'Hiroshima' on the @NewYorker's web site. The piece filled the whole of the August 24, 1946 issue of the magazine and was later published as a book in Britain https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
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Later in 1946, the Third Programme, @BBCRadio3's predecessor, broadcast the whole of Hersey's 'Hiroshima', which was hard to obtain in the UK at the time, but whose reputation was already substantial, in four parts https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d9f7f833de8d4a9ba40473e6fa287248
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In this dramatic short programme, Shuntaro Hida, who was a 28-year old doctor working at the Hiroshima Military Hospital at the time of the attack, recalls that extraordinary day https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063zt9r
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Here's an episode of @BBCInOurTime about the science that made the atom bomb possible https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054887
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In 1995, Alistair Cooke discussed the ongoing disagreement about the necessity of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00ykt75
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It was HG Wells who first imagined the devastation that a nuclear bomb might cause - he even invented the term 'atomic bomb', in his 1914 novel The World Set Free. @SamiraAhmedUK told this story for @BBCRadio3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zkjl
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