AMERICAN NOTES: In the Midst of Life

In most American cities, last Wednesday was a summer's day much like any other. Hot. California beaches reported record sales in ice cream, while New York headlines announced that the Mets had just fired Manager Yogi Berra. But it was not a day just like any other. It was the day on which, 30 years before, a bomb known as "little boy" fell on Hiroshima.

Hiroshima is almost totally rebuilt now, and many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember....

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