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...tell the story of what happened then and, more important, of how we have been affected since, Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt set out on a 20,000-mile journey that took him from Los Alamos in New Mexico to the Pacific island of Tinian and to Hiroshima. The assignment was very different from his award-winning TIME cover story of Jan. 11, 1982, on "Children of War." That unique exploration of the thoughts and feelings of children growing up on the world's battlegrounds was the writer's own invention. But the Hiroshima story, says Rosenblatt, "is a historical event...
...Rosenblatt found his first perspective in May, when he met Yoshitaka Kawamoto, the director of Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum. "He had been in the city during the bombing," says Rosenblatt. "He had a deep sense of the experience and could express it in poetic language. For the next five days, I stayed with him as he revisited all the sites of his early life and provided his account of the bombing...
...Diego, Rosenblatt found Harold Agnew, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "He had been in the instrument plane that accompanied the Enola Gay to Hiroshima, and he had also watched the first atomic chain reaction in Chicago in 1942. He was a witness to the whole progress of the atomic...
...political and historical perspective, Rosenblatt interviewed former President Richard Nixon. "He might seem an odd choice," says Rosenblatt, "but he has a historian's mind and an extraordinary understanding of the world since the 1940s. And for 14 of the 40 years since Hiroshima, he had the authority to use nuclear weapons or was second in command...
...final point of view is everyone's: How do we live with the threat of nuclear annihilation? In answering this question, Rosenblatt notes, analysis must supersede emotion: "Kawamoto's recollection is the most heartrending, but as the story's scope broadens, the effect becomes one of dispassionate understanding." The end result is an enlightening, deeply moving and at times frightening chronicle of 40 years with the atom. John A. Meyer