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How do you find out about something like Hiroshima?
When the A-bomb dropped, nobody in Japan knew for literally a day or so. A half hour later news stations noticed to their surprise that the Hiroshima broadcasting had been cut off; train lines noticed they weren't getting signals from the Hiroshima stations. But nobody knew. An entire city had been virtually destroyed and nobody found out until they went there.
It would be interesting to write about a journey like that. Just suddenly and abruptly lose contact with an entire city, and to speak to thousands of people in your home who went on with their lives, unable to comprehend anything truly disastrous happening there, and then to travel -- on foot, perhaps -- a long and arduous journey, only to get there and find that the city was gone.
When the A-bomb dropped, nobody in Japan knew for literally a day or so. A half hour later news stations noticed to their surprise that the Hiroshima broadcasting had been cut off; train lines noticed they weren't getting signals from the Hiroshima stations. But nobody knew. An entire city had been virtually destroyed and nobody found out until they went there.
It would be interesting to write about a journey like that. Just suddenly and abruptly lose contact with an entire city, and to speak to thousands of people in your home who went on with their lives, unable to comprehend anything truly disastrous happening there, and then to travel -- on foot, perhaps -- a long and arduous journey, only to get there and find that the city was gone.
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