Headlined simply Hiroshima, the 30,000-word article by John Hersey had a massive impact, revealing the full horror of nuclear weapons to the post-war generation, as Caroline Raphael describes.

Before his Hiroshima reporting ... Kondo works with Japanese orphans. “I’m so glad John Hersey wrote that book because that is what happened,” Kondo said in an interview.

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What everybody knows about John Hersey is that he wrote “Hiroshima,” the one widely read book about the effects of nuclear war. Its place in the canon is assured, not only because it was a ...

Hiroshima may have turned out a massive success ... and a liberal reformer when the term still meant something, John Hersey lived and in some ways embodied these contradictions.

But many Americans did have a vivid sense of the destruction visited on the Japanese city, thanks to John Hersey’s book “Hiroshima.” That eloquent account, first published in the New Yorker ...

Drawing on memoirs, works of history (including John Hersey’s 1946 opus ... 29 bomber tasked with dropping its atomic payload over Hiroshima and banking sharply to get out of range before ...

An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/AP) Review by Karin Tanabe When visitors step inside the ...

(Mainichi/Akiko Hirose) HIROSHIMA -- A grandson of Pulitzer Prize-winning American author John Hersey (1914-1993), who reported on Hiroshima in 1946 by interviewing A-bomb survivors, recently ...