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The Hiroshima disaster (I)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1982

Marcel Junod
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The physical impact of the atom bomb was beyond belief, beyond all apprehension, beyond imagination. Its psychological impact was appalling.

The Japanese military authorities were incapable of suppressing the news. In a few hours, a few days, the survivors told the whole country the incredible story of an incandescent bomb dropped by the Americans and devouring everything in its path.

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Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 22 , Issue 230 , October 1982 , pp. 265 - 280
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1982

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