The last train from Hiroshima

As we approach the brink of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, even to nuclear terrorism, we must remember that Hiroshima and Nagasaki represent the most deadly weapons we are likely to see in our lifetime. With these words begins the documentary novel "Charles Belgreno," supported by vivid testimonies, names, and eyewitnesses recounting what happened to humans and stones under the two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was not the only survivor who managed to test the explosion twice and survive; pure luck was what saved those who escaped those American bombs despite being close to the explosion point at the moment it fell. They were safe from the deadly gamma rays and red rays, as fate willed that these survivors were in locations able to absorb the natural shock of the explosion without affecting those inside. These dual survival stories form part of this book, "The Last Train from Hiroshima - Survivors Look Back," which the author considers as historical references containing brief summaries, arranged alphabetically, of the lives of the main eyewitnesses in this story. The book "The Last Train from Hiroshima" can be described as an explicit catalog that offers a window into breathtaking scenes of horror, stopping hearts in fear before them. It is a book that reveals scientific facts beyond human imagination: "All the uranium-235 atoms in the bomb's core were formed more than 4.6 billion years ago in a very bright heart. The nucleus gathered from the ashes of stars that had formed and perished long before the creation of the oldest mountains on the moon. The original remnants, which formed during the universe's creation and underwent mining and refining to reach purity levels exceeding 83 percent, were assembled with very precise engineering after a period of dormancy, to simulate the final scream of an exploding star. In all its fundamental elements, the abstract quantity, what happened over Hiroshima that morning—and three days later over Nagasaki, in a separate plutonium reactor filled with secondary products of a uranium reactor—appears as a faint appearance of distant suns (...)". It is more than a novel; it is a truth that breathes pain and anger toward the forces of evil in this world. And a call to end nuclear war, according to Belgreno’s description of Yamaguchi’s plan: "The only category that should be allowed to govern nuclear-armed states are mothers who are still breastfeeding their children."