August 6

AUGUST 6, 1945.

Goenawan Mohamad

August 17, 2020

A doctor in Hiroshima, a few minutes before the atom bomb exploded in the city, noted:

07:29 “The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky…”

08:14. The American pilots in the B-29 bomber named ‘Enola Gay’ dropped the bomb—and the history of mankind changed.

A ball of fire hotter than the surface of the sun exploded. Everything within

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