To some extent, the book's sense of scale is a result of the subject matter: Polostan is a story about the dawn of the atomic age. Set largely in the 1930s, it sweeps across the Soviet Union and ...
25, 1955, at age 12. The story of Sadako and the cranes ... They hope that the cranes will be registered in 2025, the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombings. “Innocent children were sacrificed ...
TOKYO (AP) — The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they ...