This book tells in detail what happened when the bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, what happened in the millionths of a second after the bomb went off, and what happened to everything that was in the bomb's radius. It tells what happened to the people that were on the ground in Hiroshima. "Unlike the man leading a horse across the nearby 'T' Bridge, Mrs. Aoyana could not possibly leave a permanent shadow on the ground. From the moment the rays began to pass through her bones, her marrow would begin vibrating at more than five times the boiling point of water. The bones themselves would become instantly incandescent, with all her flesh trying simultaneously to explode away from her skeleton while being forced straight down into the ground as a compressed gas (Pellegrino 3)" Charles Pellegrino also what would happen in the fractions of a second after the bomb went off. "Within the first three-tenths of a second following the bomb's detonation, most of the iron was going to be separated from Mrs. Aoyama's blood, as if in an atomic refinery (Pellegrino 4)." "One ten-millionth of a second later, a sphere of gamma rays, escaping the core at light speed, reaching a radius of 33 meters, with a secondary spray of neutrons following not very far behind. between the gamma bubble and the newly formed neutron bubble, electrons were stripped from every atom of air and accelerated toward the walls of the larger gamma sphere. A plasma bubble began to form, producing a thermal shock that spiked hotter than the Sun's core and glowed billions of times brighter than the surface of the sun (Pellegrino 5)." "At three-tenths of a second, the bomb itself was long gone. Everything that followed, as events shifted from bullet-time and fly-time into the time frames humans know best, signified nothing more than aftershock (Pellegrino 8)." At the beginning of the section in the book is says,"inevitably someone was bound to be standing below Point Zero." This shows that the US knew that...