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广岛（1946）
Hiroshima (1946)
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导读
这是《纽约客》1946年8月31日的一篇报道，当期杂志只登了这一篇文章：约翰·赫西（John Hersey）记述六位广岛幸存者从原子弹爆炸前一刻到爆炸后一年的经历。全文克制、具体，用普通人的细节而非统计数字呈现核爆的后果。
为什么经久不衰：它开创了以个体经验书写灾难的报道范式，是理解核武器与战争代价最直接的一手文本，八十年后读来依然刺痛。
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作者自述对投弹的看法经历三次转变，最终落到"如何让人不走向战争"这一普遍问题上。
小学时我学到原子弹和它可怕的后遗症、照片、伤痕，觉得这显然是对全人类的犯罪——这是任何普通人都会有的本能反应："怎么能把艾诺拉·盖伊号印上邮票去歌颂这件事？"后来上了大学，尤其毕业之后，我了解到日本战争机器同样骇人的暴行，以及民众对战争那种（未必恐怖却）机械般的支持、对天皇和政府的顺从，我意识到它确实终结了战争；若战争继续，可能会吞掉更多生命（当然，是否非得用这件工具，完全值得争论）。现在我进入第三个思考阶段——超越对战术、对反应、对战争当口的炸弹的任何看法——我们怎样才能让人不走上通往战争的路？我们每一个人，无论是因为支持、冷漠、默许、叠加的 misinformation 还是自尊，都会把自己推入某种处境，五十年后回头看只剩一句"到底发生了什么？"。我们肯定有工具也有意愿，对吧？我希望如此。
supernova87a查看英文原文
When I was young in grade school, and learned about the bomb, and its terrifying aftermath, pictures, scars, I thought that this was clearly a wrong against humanity to have been dropped on anyone. Clearly the visceral kind of "this should never happen" reaction that any average person would have. "How could we put the Enola Gay on a stamp to glorify this?" Then, in college and especially after, learning about the equal horrors of the Japanese war machine, and maybe actually more the non-horrific but relentless robotic support for the war (or obedience towards the emperor, government, etc) among the people, I realized that it actually did bring an end to the war. Which if it had continued, could have consumed far more lives. (whether it had to be this tool, of course, is certainly worthy of debate) Now, my 3rd phase of thinking -- beyond any opinion on tactics or reaction or bombs in the moment of a war -- is how do we get people to help themselves get out of the path to war? Each and every one of us, who whether by support or indifference, or tacit approval, or compounded misinformation, or ego, get ourselves into situations that we look back 50 years from now and say, "what happened?". Surely, we have the tools and desire, don't we? I hope.
认为投弹主要是对苏联发出的信号，美国官方叙事是胜利者书写的历史。
我曾有机会去广岛，也在美国师从曾任国防部长、负责大量战后研究的 William Perry 教授。美国人的视角和官方版本是：投弹是正确之举，也是结束太平洋战争的唯一办法。但要记住一个简单的事实：历史是胜利者写的。这明显是对二战的误读。欧洲战场上英法失去帝国霸权后，变成美苏争夺世界主导权的竞赛。红军控制德国后正开向日本，日本对此非常恐惧（此前在堪察加半岛等地就有争端，俄国人想拿回这些地方）。美国已在太平洋击败日本，日本大部分已被摧毁。美国投弹是向世界和苏联发信号：我们有这件武器，而且会用。让日本不受俄国控制，比在德国那样陷入同样的烂摊子更符合他们的利益。
spicyramen查看英文原文
I have had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima and lived in the US where I had the chance to study under professor William Perry former Secretary of Defense and responsible for many post war research. The perspective and official version that Americans have is that dropping the bomb was the right thing to do and only way to finish the war in the Pacific. The history is written by the winners simple fact to always keep in mind. This is clearly a misunderstanding of World War 2. In Europe after England and France lost their hegemony as empires, it became a race between USSR and US for world domination. The Red Army after controlling Germany were on their way to Japan, and Japanese were really afraid of it. There was a previous dispute over Kamchatka peninsula and other territories that Russians would want to claim back. US already defeated Japan in the Pacific and most of Japan was already destroyed. US sent the bomb to send a message to the World and USSR: we have this weapon and we will use it. It was in their best interest to control a Russia-free Japan than get into the same mess as in Germany.
同一段苦难换个视角就是另一回事，提醒读者日本军人在新加坡的暴行。
有意思的是，战争从侵略者的角度看总是光荣的，从被侵略者的角度看总是悲伤的——哪怕同一个人也如此！我们的感受取决于当时读的是谁的故事。"她过得并不容易。丈夫 Isawa 在 Myeko 出生后不久就入伍了，此后很久没有他的任何消息，直到 1942 年 3 月 5 日她收到一封七个字的电报：'Isawa 在新加坡光荣牺牲。'" 如果你不知道她丈夫在新加坡参与的是什么——"新加坡和马来亚约有 2.5 万到 5 万名华人被围捕，带到岛上各处偏僻地点系统性地杀害。"
Hondor查看英文原文
It's funny how war is always glorious from the point of view of the aggressor and always sad from the point of view of the aggressed (sp?), even when they're the same person! How we feel depends on who's story we're reading at the time. "She had not had an easy time. Her husband, Isawa, had gone into the Army just after Myeko was born, and she had heard nothing from or of him for a long time, until, on March 5, 1942, she received a seven-word telegram: “Isawa died an honorable death at Singapore.” " In case you don't know what her husband would have contributed to in Singapore - "between 25,000 and 50,000 ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaya ... were rounded up and taken to deserted spots around the island and killed systematically." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore
全文约一小时可读完，以几个人物和那一夜的细节最令人难忘。
我大约花一小时读完了全文。如果你和我一样对广岛事件着迷，强烈推荐也这样做。文章跟随几个在爆炸次日夜裡聚到同一个公园的人，令人难忘地捕捉到那一夜的气氛，以及人们所经历的可怕的身体细节。我肯定会记住文中一些画面很久。
canjobear查看英文原文
It took me about an hour to read this whole thing. If you are like me and find the Hiroshima event fascinating, I highly recommend doing this. The piece follows several people who ended up in a park together the night after the bomb, and hauntingly captures the mood of that night and the horrifying physical details of what people went through. I definitely think I'll remember some images from this article for a while.
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