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Before Hiroshima And After Chapter Summary

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Loren Abram
Mr. Crowell
U.S History since 1865
December 9, 2017

“Day One: Before Hiroshima and After” by Peter Wyden
Book Review On August 6, 1945, a “Little Boy” devastated the lives of over 245,000 people in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. That “Little Boy” was the first ever atomic bomb dropped. It was powerful enough to kill thousands and end a war. The book “Day One: Before Hiroshima and After” gives us an incite to what it was like to be on the inside and be apart of this world changing event in the days and months before it even happened and after. The idea that started it all was nothing more than science fiction. The father of the bomb was a Hungarian physicist who came up with the idea of an atomic chain reaction while sitting
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