The Pain of Remembering August 6, 1945 (Korean translation available)

David McNeill

doi:10.1017/S1557466005002858

The Pain of Remembering August 6, 1945 (Korean translation available)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

David McNeill

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“The plane came out of a clear blue sky,” says Yamaoka Michiko, and you can't help recalling the now iconic video footage of the hijacked Boeing 767 as it sailed into the World Trade Center's north tower.

But Yamaoka is remembering not the horrors of 9/11 but those of Hiroshima 60 years ago, when an atomic bomb detonated as she walked from her house into the city's center on Aug. 6, 1945. The only warning was the familiar drone of a single B-29.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , e27

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