By Kevin Seabrooke
On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Graff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has drawn from oral history archives and hundreds of books, reports, letters, diaries, and transcripts from across the U.S., Japan, and Europe, to craft an epic narrative of the atomic bomb’s creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of people involved, including scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians, including the Hibakusha—the survivors of the bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan.
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 608 pp., Aug. 5, 2025 $35 HC)
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