This is John Batcher, conversation with my colleague Charlie Pellegrino, author of The Last Train

from Hiroshima to Helen Back, subtitled Last Train from Hiroshima, and the forthcoming Ghosts of Hiroshima. The news from

Hollywood is that James Cameron, Charlie's longtime colleague, has purchased

or optioned the rights to all three books to produce his next

movie after the avatar cycle is complete. On the Ghosts of Hiroshima, this will

include both bomb attacks, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and

the experience the remains, the memory of the people on the ground, especially those who survived Hiroshima and took a train because they worked for Mitsubishi

to Nagasaki, the other plant. He needed a work to eat and survived the second bomb attack.

What about the victims?

What was it like to be underneath that radiation blast?

However, in the airplane in Olegay, swinging hard to get away from the bomb before it exploded.

They were told to wear their protective glasses and not to look at the explosion. One man didn't wear the glasses and Charlie describes why

why not and what he experienced in the Enola Gay as it was fleeing the bomb and was 10 miles away when the detonation occurred about

1900 feet off the ground.

Here's Charlie Pelicrino describing Inside the Enola Gaye, August 6th, 1945?

More of this later.

Yes, within the plane itself you had, for instance, Jacob Bizir, he had to keep a watch on his instruments.

So he removed his protective glasses because he was the guy who was watching the radar

device that he helped to design and to make sure that the bomb detonated at the altitude.

They wanted it to detonate about

1900 feet or 600 meters and so he had the glasses off but even though he was not

looking back toward Hiroshima even though he was not looking back toward Hiroshima,

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