Thread by @BBCRadio4, It's the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima. In the aftermath [...]

It& #39;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 ">https://bbc.in/30xAjxt&q...

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BBC Radio 4 - Hersey's Hiroshima

Seventy years ago, an article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima rocked the world.

https://bbc.in/30xAjxt

At the time of the 70th anniversary, Radio 4& #39;s @CSRaphael1 wrote about Hersey& #39;s hugely important examination of the bombing of Hiroshima https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894

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How John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the horror of the bomb

Seventy years have passed since the publication of a report hailed as one of the greatest pieces of journalism ever written - one that described the terrible effects of the atomic bomb.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37131894

You can read John Hersey& #39;s long article, simply titled & #39;Hiroshima& #39; on the @NewYorker& #39;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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Hiroshima

How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

Later in 1946, the Third Programme, @BBCRadio3& #39;s predecessor, broadcast the whole of Hersey& #39;s & #39;Hiroshima& #39;, 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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BBC Radio 4 - Under the Mushroom Cloud

A dramatic eyewitness account of the events in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063zt9r

Here& #39;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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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Nuclear Physics

Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054887

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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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke - The atomic bomb - BBC Sounds

The controversy surrounding the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00ykt75

It was HG Wells who first imagined the devastation that a nuclear bomb might cause - he even invented the term & #39;atomic bomb& #39;, 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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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, HG and the H-Bomb

Samira Ahmed explores the role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zkjl

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