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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