Like Hell
Thomas McKeown, 1 October 1981
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings
translated by Eisei Ishikawa and David Swain.
Hutchinson, 706 pp., £20, August 1981,0 09 145640 1 Show More
translated by Eisei Ishikawa and David Swain.
Hutchinson, 706 pp., £20, August 1981,
“... President Reagan’s attention span is known to be brief, and he is said to prefer his memoranda to be limited to a single page. It is therefore unlikely that he will read closely the 640-page report which describes experience of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nevertheless, it would be useful if he – and Mr Brezhnev – were to look through the photographs, which, for the convenience of those who will get no further, have been wisely placed before the text ... ”