Russell Shorto

John Hersey, The Writer Who Let Hiroshima” Speak for Itself

NewYorker.com

by Russell Shorto

August 31, 2016

Seventy years ago, this magazine devoted its entire August 31st issue to an article by John Hersey titled Hiroshima.” It became a landmark in journalism, in publishing, and in humanity’s awareness of itself and its own awful potential…