Gembaku No Ochita Hi (PHP Bunko)

[Machine Translation] I conceived the idea of recreating once again what the Japanese people were like during the war. This book is a three-dimensional reconstruction of the nuclear weapons development race between the U.S., Germany, and Japan, Japan's situation as it was being pursued moment by moment, and the "day" of the atomic bombing, based on a vast amount of data and interviews. The book is a masterpiece that has been read and reread throughout the ages, not only for the tragedy of the atomic bombings, but also for its fundamental questioning of what "war" really means.

戦争中の日本人はなんであったかを、もう一度再現してみようと構想してみた―。本書は、米・独・日の核兵器開発競争から、刻々と追いつめられる日本の状況、そして原爆が投下された「その日」までを、膨大な資料と取材によって立体的に再現したもの。原爆の悲惨さのみならず、「戦争」とは何かを根源的に問い、時代を越えて読みつがれる名著である。