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Ghosts of Hiroshima

Charles Pellegrino . 2025 . 940.5425 PEL

• Interesting subject, interesting characters, lazy organization. Difficult to read in multiple sittings for a busy "time-sliced" reader. Hopefully this wiki page will help other confused readers.
• After introducing characters by full name, they are referred to by first name in disconnected vignettes afterward, though indexed by last name. They suffer horribly but similarly, and it is difficult to differentiate them later without a referring to the last-name-ordered "Key Eyewitnesses Index" followed by a repeated reread of some of the indexed material. Much is not indexed, and some names pop up then go away without reference or indexing.
• Chapters are titled metaphorically, note section pages are titled by chapter number. Some notes have references, many are personal communication, undocumented elderly or second hand memories from 80 years after the event. This is mostly about remembered feelings.

• p001 Prologue: By Accidental Connections, or by Spooky Action at a Distance?

• p001 Walter Lord A Night to Remember

• p001 Morgan Robertson 1898 Futility

• p003 Beyond The Spectrum 1908 stories about Japan attacking Hawaii and Manila with a light superweapon

• p007 ch01: Sunrise

• p006 " ... orchards of Hiroshima aflame. It smelled like cherry pie. "

• p021 ch02: Butterfly, Butterfly

• p024 17yo Saito Michiko in bunker 10 blocks from hypocenter
• p025 brief unconciousness, emerges to smashed landscape, goes searching for wife

• p048 Harold Urey asks Lt. Col. Kenneth Nichols to find 100 tons of uranium ore.

• p049 Edgar Sengier has 200 tons of pitchblende in NYC, 1000 more tons on Staten Island.

• p050 Warned by Enrico Fermi, mined in 1939 Congo, source of almost all Manhattan Project uranium, also fueled reactors to make plutonium

• p053 ch03: Profiles of the Future

• p075 ch04: Neutron Star

• p075 Jacob Beser radar fuse for Little Boy, flew on Enola Gay

• p077 Enola Gay crew mostly did not know what they were carrying, Beser figured it out

• p083 Tibbets maneuver: crash dive and course reversal

• p084 bomb trajectory 4 miles downrange; dive accelerates plane while turning opposite direction
  • nine slant miles from detonation
• p084 Tibbets smelled and tasted the radiation pulse from detonation, Beser (without goggles) temporarily flash-blinded

• p087 Shiroi machi hiroshima 1985 film White City Hiroshima

• p089 Hiroko Tasaka moved to US, married Harry Harris

• p089 "her family would become bound by marriage to one of the" Enola Gay crewmembers Citation Needed
• p090 "logarithmically increasing loss of life" ... huh? Pelligrino confused, may have meant "exponentially"

• p091 Second mission primary target Kokura weapons plants

• p092 streetcar wheels and hundreds of teeth on ground

• p093 Nuclear scientist Yoshio Nishina "we must make War Minister Anami understand there is no defense against this kind of power"

• p094 "growing the stars" unexplained Japanese metaphor "Hoshi o sodateru"(?) meaning ... hoping? aspiring?
• p096 children grow fast, incorporate radioisotopes ("radioactive elements" "toxins") in bones
• p097 bomb a "child killer" ... Ch4 note 11 reference to personal communication ... why bother?

• p098 Mitsuo Fuchida military pilot interrogated by Walter Lord

• p099 Japanese 1937 sinking of USS Paney and strafing of survivors in China, some witnesses left alive to test US resolve

• p099 US oil and steel built Japan's military
• p100 Ch4 note 12 p281 "They bombed Pearl Harbor with the Ninth Avenue el (scrapped NYC transit rail)

• p100 Earl Warren absence of sabotage was "the most ominous sign in our whole situation"

• p101 1/16th Japanese ancestry was enough for interment in US prisoner camps

• p102 Toyo Mitataki photos from Manzanar camp

• Two views of Manzanar : an exhibition of photographs 1978 Ansel Adams and Toyo Mitataki. UO and UW libraries, $30 used in germany

• p105 ch05: Surfing the Improbability Curve

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• p133 ch.p1206: All This Has Happened Before; All This May Happen Again

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• p163 ch07: The Fallen Sky

• ch7 note 7 p291

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• p179 ch08: Is It Dusk Already?

• ch8 note 1 p292
• ch8 note 5 p295

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• p251 Epilogue: Island in the Stream of Stars

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• p257 Appendix: Key Eyewitnesses

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