Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young doctor at the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima, came into work this morning from his mother's home in the country. In the corridor of the hospital, the doctor sees the flash through an open window and falls down. The blast rips through the hospital, breaking Sasaki's glasses and the bottle of blood he was holding, but he is survives and is untouched. Automatically, he begins helping people.
In yet another part of town, Miss Toshiko Sasaki (not related to the doctor) is sitting down to her clerk's job at her desk in the East Asia Tin Works. She turns to chat for a moment with the girl who works beside her, and as she turns her head from the window, the room is filled with a blinding flash. Paralyzed with fear, Toshiko Sasaki is trapped when the ceiling and people above her fall into her work space. Bookcases fall forward on her, breaking her leg and crushing her under piles of books.
In a brief moment, these six people, as well as others, survive while 100,000 die; the Atomic Age has begun.
