The Bells of Nagasaki

On August 9, 1945, when the atomic bomb «Fat Man» exploded over Nagasaki, Dr. Takashi Nagai was working at a university hospital near the epicenter. Barely escaping from the half-destroyed building and despite serious injuries, together with other doctors he began helping the survivors. A report about those first terrifying days after the atomic bombing became the basis for the book «Nagasaki Bell». Dr. Nagai died of leukemia two years after publication. His essay became both a unique eyewitness account of the catastrophe and a scientist’s reflection on the nature of the atomic bomb—a humanist appeal that such a thing must never happen again.