Hiroshima Diary by Hachiya M.D. Michihiko

Author:Hachiya M.D., Michihiko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1 A hibachi is a wooden, metal, or earthenware container partly filled with ashes, usually of straw, in which is placed a small charcoal fire. Except in unusual circumstances it is used more for heating than for cooking.

2 Sumi is a word for a black writing ink, also charcoal.

3 Heat shadows were cast by the intense flash of light attending the detonation and these shadows were etched into concrete, stone, or metal. By triangulating from many points, the convergence of projected shadow lines fixes the approximate ground location and height or the bomb. However, even where hundreds of projections are made, the diameter of the center could not be reduced to an area much less than 100 meters, or the height more accurately fixed than between 500 and 700 meters. The center was probably more nearly over the Shima Hospital. As already mentioned, concrete columns flanking the Shima Hospital entrance were driven some distance into the ground. Had the driving force not been overhead, the columns should have toppled.

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