The Day Man Lost
Subtitle: Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
Edition: 1st Pbk ed edition
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: August 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780870114717
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; Nuclear weapons; Peace studies; History: World; History; History - Military / War; Europe; Japan; Military - World War II; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Atomic bomb; Bombardment, 1945; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: In the fifth century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Democritus propounded the theory that matter, all matter, was composed of the same indivisible particles, particles that he called atomos, which means in Greek nothing more than "nondivisible."