Noboricho Elementary School: 0.7 mi / 1.1 km from ground zero. 10 psi blast pressure, 23 cal/cm² thermal radiation, 765 rem exposure.pic.twitter.com/NPQBpolGh4
The Hiroshima museum had many powerful images to illustrate the destruction. But it's this guy and his students that I keep thinking about.pic.twitter.com/ana7nB5wWK
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The fact that elementary school records were a great dataset for calculating Hiroshima's mortality vs. distance curves is just so dark.pic.twitter.com/WgdfQkNlD7
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there's a bit in the Cooks' JAPAN AT WAR: AN ORAL HISTORY I've never been able to get out of my head, about the Tokyo firebombings
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A mother loses two small children, and till her death at 88 goes to pour water on their graves. "Teruko-chan, you must have been hot."
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I remember that passage. Burned alive on her back as she fled carrying them from the flames.
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Choking up just thinking of it.
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It's all I can do not to burst into tears/descend into a panic attack
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