According to some estimates, about 70,000 of Nagasaki's 240,000 residents were killed instantly,[45] and up to 60,000 were injured. The radius of total destruction was about 1.6 km (1 mile), followed by fires across the northern portion of the city to 3.2 km (2 miles) south of the bomb.[46] The total number of residents killed may have been as many as 80,000, including the few who died from radiation poisoning in the following months.[47]I remember my dad gave me two books to read linked to the subject: We Of Nagasaki by T. Nagai (memoirs of survivors) and a novel based on the death railway in Burma, And All The Trumpets by Donald Smith. He believed in peace, forgiveness and complexity. I owe him.
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