The Apocalypse Factory by Steve Olson

Author:Steve Olson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Only reinforced concrete buildings, including those of Nagasaki Medical College Hospital, remained standing within a mile and a half of the hypocenter, which is in the valley beyond the hospital. Shirabe was in a building at approximately the center of these structures. Getty Images.

People inside Nagasaki Medical College Hospital were partly protected from the bomb’s radiation and blast. Still, the death toll there was horrendous. Of about 850 students, 650 died, partly because many were in the wooden buildings of the medical school rather than the concrete buildings of the hospital. Even inside the hospital, half the patients died, and almost half the professors. The people who streamed up the hillside after the bombing left many of their friends, colleagues, and family members behind.

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