Shockwave - The Countdown to Hiroshima

Walker's countdown to Hiroshima and its aftermath is a tense, real-life narrative of events as they unfolded in the last terrible weeks of the war. Unprecedented interviews with American and Japanese witnesses interweave in a tapestry of voices. They include the co-pilot of the Enola Gay writing a minute-by-minute diary, the atomic scientist who arms the bomb in mid-air, the Japanese student searching for his lover in the city ruins, and the doctor forced to treat thousands of burnt bodies with only soy-bean oil and leaves...