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...tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also...
...putatively about not forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but actually a scaremongering piece about Iran, Russia, and North Korea (“Too Easily Forgotten,” Aug. 12), Adam M. Guren neglects even once to mention Israel’s clandestine but widely known nuclear arsenal. When was the last time Israel allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its nukes? Why hasn’t Israel signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Is the writer simply ignorant, or is he knowingly dissembling Israel’s significant involvement with illicit weapons of mass destruction? Is Israel exempt...
...family and I were among hundreds of Westerners trapped in Japan during WW II, fortunately many miles from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By August 1945, the helpless people of Japan were starving to death, and there was widespread homelessness. I shudder to think what devastation one more winter would have wrought had the war not ended. As terrible as they were, the atom bombs saved more lives than they destroyed. Lucille Apcar Mariposa, California...
...Enola Gay I returned, it just about blew our tents down, since it came in so low in celebration of what the crew suspected it had done: end the war. Later we flew our C-46 transport plane to Omura, Japan. As we looked down at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed as if somebody had taken a rake and cleared those cities off the earth. I am now 80 years old, and while those memories may have been suppressed, they were never erased from my mind. I only pray such bombs will never be used again. Robert P. Good Shenandoah...
...very moved by the oral histories of the U.S. servicemen aboard the planes that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hope they know they are heroes. It was estimated that an invasion might have caused 1 million Allied casualties. There would be a lot fewer dads and grandpas around today had that taken place. Jonas Lindgren, Officer Candidate Illinois Army National Guard Glenview, Illinois...