Diary of Engineer Retells Hiroshima Events 68 Years Later

Tokyo, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The diary of a Japanese engineer, revealed today, gives the readers a personal detailed view of the atomic attack by the United States against Hiroshima, 68 years ago.

The tragedy of that moment, experienced by thousands of civilians takes on life in the pages of the personal notebook of late Hiroshi Morikawa, who was working as engineer of the Japanese news network NHK, in Hiroshima, in 1945.

The diary says that at the time of the event, its writer was a little further than one kilometer from the place where the bomb exploded.

Morikawa describes that he witnessed destruction of his apartment building and retells his need to report to the citizens about that US air attack, the motive for which he dared death to go to the station to be able to broadcast the news.

With his head and part of his body wrapped in a wet blanket, he went to the radio station, avoiding on his way the fires of the city in ruins.

He also says in his diary that a radio station in Osaka had requested a short-wave radio broadcast service and according to his notes, he got it the same day.

After intense bombing, during World War II, the nuclear bomb Little Boy was launched by the United States on Hiroshima, causing the death of 140,000 people.

Three days later, the Government of Harry Truman ordered to launch another bomb: the so-called Fat Man, on Nagasaki, which caused the death of 80,000 people.

Those two bombings have been recorded among the most macabre in the pages of universal history, especially due to the loss of innocent people and hundred others that were traumatized and mutilated by the effect of radiation.

The overwhelming majority of the victims were civilians, as Morikawa, who retells in his diary, from the perspective of those affected, the horror of that sadly well-known Monday in Hiroshima.