![]() ![]() ![]() Only a little farther downriver, barely 140 steps from the exact center of the detonation, and still within this same sliver of a second, women who were sitting on the stone steps of the Sumitomo Bank's main entrance, evidently waiting for the doors to open, evaporated when the sky opened up instead. ![]() His footsteps, the horse's footsteps, and the last footsteps of the people who had been crossing the bridge with him toward the heart of the city were preserved on the instantly bleached road surface, as if by an accidental new method of flash photography. On a bridge located in central Hiroshima, a man could still be seen leading a horse, though he had utterly ceased to exist. Had Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe been born into the mid-twentieth century, they would never have had to invent horror.įor the Japanese scientists who first ventured into the still-radioactive hypocenters of Hiroshima and Nagasaki trying to understand what had occurred, the most fearsome deaths were the quickest. ![]()
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