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Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
Busch uses the same narrative style adopted by John Hersey in Hiroshima: he follows one man or a family through their ordeal. But Two Minutes to Noon has little of the quiet compassion that made Hersey's book so compelling. In fact, from time to time Busch seems to be studying ants struggling in a bottle. He describes the plight of the Japanese crowding onto the same bridge from opposite sides of the river as "an interesting tactical development." Many who sought refuge on the bridge died there...
...device known to have been exploded in North America (all other U.S. H-shots have been in the western Pacific). Generating a force of 100,000 tons of TNT, it was also the most powerful blast ever to be touched off in the U.S. (the atomic bomb that decimated Hiroshima had a force of 20,000 tons of TNT). The Atomic Energy Commission announced that 95% of the blast's radioactivity was either trapped in the ground or returned to earth by the falling debris. Purpose of the explosion: to test the feasibility of using thermonuclear devices to speed...
...appointment, graduated 68th in the 260-man class of 1930, later did graduate work at M.I.T. and Columbia. He served in Europe during World War II, after V-E day helped direct the dismantling of Hitler's war machine, later served under MacArthur as military governor for Hiroshima...
Nagasaki's citizens seem to be less fearful of "atom sickness" than their fellow survivors in Hiroshima. They are also markedly gayer and more relaxed. The city's longtime mayor, Tsutomu Tagawa, whose home was destroyed by the Bomb, says his people feel "no bitterness" toward the U.S., shrugs: "If Japan had had the same type of weapon, it would have used it." Today the main difference between the two cities is that Hiroshima has remained a stark symbol of man's inhumanity to man; Nagasaki is a monument to forgiveness...