Hiroshima Resources

Websites

New Yorker, New Yorker

Check out the original version of Hiroshima (first four chapters only) at The New Yorker online. It took up the entire magazine.

New Yorker, New Yorker, Part Deux (er, Cinq)

Check out the fifth chapter updating us on all six subjects forty years later.

Articles and Interviews

Let's Get Retro

To celebrate The New Yorker's eighty-fifth anniversary, the magazine picked "Eighty-Five from The Archive." This one focuses on Hiroshima.

John Hersey died just a few years after publishing his update to the Hiroshima story.

Check out his 1993 obituary from The New York Times.

Video

Hiroshima, in Video

Check out this piece on the impact of Hiroshima when it first came out in The New Yorker.

From the Archives

Check out this article from the Atlantic, which provides archival video of the blast/aftermath from the U.S. War Department. Keep a look out for the Red Cross Hospital.

Audio

In case your eyes are feeling tired…

Check out the audiobook of Hiroshima here.

Images

Don't Judge A Magazine By Its Cover

The cover of the "Hiroshima" issue of The New Yorker gave no clue as to what was inside…

The Man Himself

In case you were wondering, here's what Hersey looked like…