d foremost. Not to say there is any lack of numbers surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; we know that at 8:15 A.M. Japanese time, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the bomb exploded at 2,000 feet above the city, and immediately obliterated almost everything within a radius of four miles. The temperature at the center of the bomb was over 6,000 degrees centigrade, and was over 300 degrees 3 miles from ground zero. The bomb exploded with the same force as 15,000 tons of TNT, exerting 5.2 to 8.0 tons of pressure per square yard in the surrounding areas. Within 8 miles, very heavy damage resulting from tornado-force winds, fires, and high temperatures occurred, destroying in all 70,000 buildings. A fisherman 20 miles away heard it explode louder than when B-29s hit his hometown, 5 miles away. Roadways shifted, bridges flew, and trains were thrown, among other noteworthy acts of strength. As far as people, 120,000 died immediately in the blast and resulting events, and another 80,000 from radiation sickness, burns, blood loss, and other bomb-related causes. Amid all these horrors, the majority of physicians and doctors in the city had their hospitals and offices destroyed, their equipment scattered, and their own bodies incapacitated to varying degrees. This in part accounts for the large number of deaths. Of the city's 150 doctors, 65 died immediately and most of the rest were badly wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too injured to work. In the largest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors of thirty were able to function, along with ten of two hundred nurses. You could consider those who died immediately "the lucky ones," as thousands of hours of chemotherapy do not equal the radiation released in an instant on that day. Immediate effects include hair loss, tissue damage, vomiting, and low white blood cell and platelet count. Blood poured from wounds opened by radiation, large chunks of flesh just...