Interesting to see the difference in writing style back then. Lots of long sentences. Kind of the opposite to the LinkedIn-style writing we see today, spitting out as many sentences and paragraphs as possible. Like you can see the generations' attention spans in their form of writing.

  A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb. 

Unsurprising for the time given the context.

While people far from Japan made much of the uniqueness and power of a single bomb destroying a single city for those on the ground it was just another single city destroyed overnight by bombing .. the 73rd such city destroyed in a relatively short duration of time.

The destruction and death in Hiroshima was on par with the destruction and death in Tokyo when that was firebombed.