Written by the journalist Wilfred Burchett in the ruins of Hiroshima - the first Westerner of any kind to enter the city after the atomic blast - and here he tells his tale.

The first nuclear war: Hiroshima dispatch -- 'A warning to the world': ground zero -- Covering up: through Japanese eyes -- Hiroshima: a generation later (The hibakusha ; The survivors fight back) -- Was it all necessary? (The race that humanity lost ; Mission 'Alsos') -- Bitter harvest: America kills its own -- Hiroshima & the Cold War: the nuclear hawks at Berlin.