I'm John that's your visiting with my colleague Charles Pellegrino, the author of Last

Tram from Eroshava, then to Hell and Back, subtitle Last

Time for Erosiama in 2015, and then next summer, 2025, Ghost of Erosia

It's to be made into a Hollywood movie with both the crew of the bombers and their

observation planes and the people who send them and build them. And then on the Japanese side, the victims who were experienced and

survived, perhaps 30 members of the Mitsubishi plan in Hiroshima took a train

beautifully from

Hiroshima to Nagasaki. They had to eat, they had to work, and

experienced the bomb twice. What on the ground

phenomena that Charlie features in his book? There's lots to choose from. I'm going to go

first for the shadow people. What was that Charlie? That was part of what led to

widely believed myth and it was taught in schools whenever the subject was

brought up at all. The people left shadows on the ground and instantly disintegrated and that was

very fast painless death.

That was true in Hiroshima, for example,

only if you were within about 800 feet underneath the bomb, a radius of about

800 feet.

Out a half mile, a mile away, almost a mile away. You would have left a shadow on the ground but one

side of your body would have been severely burned. Half mile away you would have if you were facing the bomb unshielded outside all of your organs

facing the bomb would have been instantly parboiled down to a depth into your body of about six inches and people who are exposed to that can live for a while at least minutes hours so the horrifying part is where you find the shadows of people on bridges and on the ground and against walls that was still standing the day after.

Many of those people, the majority of them outside that radius were able to walk away and

they suffered horribly or however long much longer they lived most not beyond about three days.

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