Original: Hiroshima is the title of a magazine article written by Pulitzer winner John Hersey that appeared in The New Yorker in August 1946 , one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima , Japan , at 8:15 a.m. , August 6 , 1945 .
Simplified: Each account is followed by a brief statement describing how close each person was to the center of the blast .