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Today in History: Hiroshima - UNC Press Blog
The world witnessed the first wartime use of an atomic weapon on this day 63 years ago when the United States bombed Hiroshima. Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital at the time. He survived the bombing and helped to hold Hiroshima together in the aftermath. Amazingly, he also managed to record daily entries in a personal diary, which UNC Press published for the first time in 1955. On the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing, the Press issued a revised edition of Hiroshima Diary with a new foreword by John W. Dower....
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