Sean Kennedy's Reviews > Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

I was disappointed with this book. Although meticulously researched and offering a good (although not unique) revisionist take on early nuclear history, this is really the story of the nuclear bomb, and not really about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of over five hundred pages, only two slight chapters focus on the bombings themselves and the citizens who found themselves at the epicentre of the worst terrorist attacks enacted upon innocent civilians.

If the book had been called The Creation and Detonation of Fat Man and Little Boy I may not have been set up for disappointment, but it was called Hiroshima Nagasaki and to have so little of the book focused on the city and the inhabitants feels like it is doing them a grave injustice.