But time moved on, weeks passed, and eventually the gruesome details of Hiroshima and Nagasaki began to emerge. John Hersey's Hiroshima, published in the New Yorker in 1946, had a remarkable impact on public understanding of the event. Pictures emerged of cities razed to the ground and people with horrible burns and life-changing injuries and scars. President Truman, even in 1965, said that he would not hesitate to drop the bomb again. Despite the conclusion of John Hersey — that the world has an indistinct memory of the effects of this bomb — the fact remains that it has not been used since the events were reported so vividly in John Hersey's Hiroshima.
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