Of Thousands Of Others, Nearer The Centre Of The Explosion, There Was No Trace. They Vanished. The Theory In Hiroshima Is That The Atomic Heat Was So Great That They Burned Instantly To Ashes - Except That There Were No Ashes. - SearchQuotes

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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

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