For 10 points, what Japanese city was destroyed by an atomic bomb three days before a similar raid on Nagasaki?
In a book subtitled The Dream of America from [this city] to Now, Peter Hales argues that media depictions of an event in this city created a new type of "sublime" in American popular culture. William Shawn devoted an entire issue of the New Yorker to an account of an event in this city featuring the Jesuit Father Kleinsorge. Norman Cousins helped 25 of this city's "keloid girls" travel to America to receive surgery. This city was likely chosen as the first (*) target of a military operation because Henry Stimson wanted to spare the city where he had his honeymoon. John Hersey wrote a book about an attack on this city that resulted in the scrapping of Operation Downfall. Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped a device called "Little Boy" on this city out of the Enola Gay. For 10 points, what Japanese city was destroyed by an atomic bomb three days before a similar raid on Nagasaki?
In a book subtitled The Dream of America from [this city] to Now, Peter Hales argues that media depictions of an event in this city created a new type of "sublime" in American popular culture.
Hiroshima [do NOT accept or prompt on “Nagasaki”; Peter Hales’ book is called Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now]