Hiroshima

Origin
John Hersey's Hiroshima is a book telling the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It covered a period of time immediately, prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6th, 1945. It starts on the day the bombs fell and feature six characters, two doctors, a Protestant minister, a widowed seamstress, a young female factory worker and a German Catholic priest. It describes their morning before the bomb was dropped. Through the book, the lives of those six people overlap as they share similar experiences and the year following.

Effects
Radioactive, only when opened.

Collection
Kept in Library as long as the book remains closed.