#HIROSHIMA: 8:15 am Local Time. Charlie Pellegrino, author "To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima."
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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#HIROSHIMA: 8:15 am Local Time. Charlie Pellegrino, author "To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima."
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Train-Hiroshima-Survivors-Look/dp/1400165636
https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_1/134-2223588-5107711?pd_rd_w=C1tNF&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=8YHST5KM6QKX5089S0GX&pd_rd_wg=TRfkl&pd_rd_r=b3d6b49c-6fee-4cd1-8f7c-916db954ba07&pd_rd_i=1442250585&psc=1
1945 Hiroshima
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.3 | CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor 815 local time |
| 0:10.5 | Hiroshima Japan. The date is August 6 in America, August 7th in Japan. The explosion itself is a surprise. Japan's been fire-bombed for a surprise. |
| 0:23.0 | Japan's been firebombed for weeks since March. |
| 0:27.0 | However, this time it was a single plane, actually two planes, |
| 0:31.4 | one named NOLA Gay. This is the remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 0:38.9 | In a book published by Charles Pellegrino, and updated by Charles Pellegrino and updated by Charles Pelagrino always more information. |
| 0:45.6 | The original book was last trained from Eroshema, the survivors looked back. |
| 0:50.4 | The second book, even more material was to Helen back the survivors look back |
| 0:55.2 | We're gonna follow one particular survivor of both blasts between Hiroshima and Nagasaki but first first, Charlie, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:04.9 | It is August 6th in America |
| 1:06.7 | when we recorded the atomic blast over Hiroshima. |
| 1:11.6 | The immediate effect in addition to vaporizing and |
| 1:16.6 | destroying and leveling the city was black rain. |
| 1:20.4 | What was black rain Charlie? |
| 1:21.6 | Good evening to you. Good evening. Black rain. What was |
| 1:25.0 | the material directly under the bomb that was intensely irradiated at during that first 100,000 of a second of the bomb's detonation, |
| 1:38.4 | every element that ever has or ever can exist in our galaxy in the universe was briefly created and very rapidly |
| 1:48.6 | many of them decayed as some traveling close to the speed of light, only one or two feet before they disappeared, |
| 1:55.8 | but some lasting several minutes. |
| 1:59.2 | And that's what was deadly. |
| 2:01.1 | They were hoisted up into this cloud, |
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