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| 1,000m from the hypocenter August 6, 1945 |
Kazuo Matsumuro
(32 at the time of the bombing, 61 when he drew this picture)
As the tremendous pillar of fire whirled higher, the debris it sucked up sparkled in the sunlight, at once horrifying and unspeakably beautiful. On this clear mid-summer day, that mushroom was the only cloud in the sky. Here and there, rays of sunlight broke through.
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