I can't imagine having an atomic bomb dropped on the city I live in, even after having read this book by John Hersey. It's horrifying and so incredibly sad. A difficult, but necessary, read!

“A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time none of them knew anything.”― John Hersey, Hiroshima [With Photos of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath]