Rich Stein (he/him)2d ago

"He returned to find unimaginable horrors. Having thought they could never be put into words, he eventually decided that a memoir 'would help ensure that no one experienced it ever again', his daughter Koko Tanimoto Kondo said.

In the memoir’s foreword, Kondo writes of the need for future generations to remember it as 'memory is our hope for survival as human beings'.

The memoir was found... among the papers of John Hersey..."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/23/lost-memoir-of-hiroshima-survivor-found-after-decades-in-us-archive
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Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

The Guardian
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"‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

"... he said, very quietly: 'Never again.'"
[from "Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima" by
Stephen Walker]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-author-stephen-walker
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‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files

The Guardian
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