bombardment, 1945

Argues that information and debate about President Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed.

The lives and fates of three people--a scientist smuggled into America to work at Los Alamos, a young woman quarantined on a refugee ship in the Atlantic, and a young Japanese girl--collide in August 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Examines the reasons behind the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan during World War II.

Sadako Sasaki is the victim of the Hiroshima bomb. Hospitalized for leukemia, she is reminded of a Japanese legend which says if you create a thousand paper cranes the gods will make you well.

Nineteen autobiographical accounts of women from the Hiroshima area who lost husbands in the nuclear attack.

A young Japanese woman struggles to adapt to a new way of life in the aftermath of World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb on her country.