The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonate…

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