aliens that have so cruelly and unjustly invaded their country." While in Yellow Peril fiction scientists and soldiers who defeat the invaders are portrayed as heroes, Hersey portrays Japanese and German clergymen, doctors, and other ordinary citizens as heroes. Essays on the Red Circle Authors website included Hiroshima in the Atomic Bomb Literature cycle. Still, relevant anthologies like Nihon no Genbaku Bungaku or The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath are confined solely to Japanese writers. In her 1953 short story Fireflies, writer Yōko Ōta, a representative of the Atomic Bomb Literature, repeatedly refers to Hershey's report and Dr. Sasaki, whom she calls Dr. X in her story, "the young doctor that John Hersey had written about in Hiroshima". The book was featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read in November 2020. See also Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb List of books about nuclear issues References Further reading Patrick B. Sharp, Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture discusses the profound influence of Hersey's story on how nuclear apocalypse was represented throughout the early Cold War. External links Hiroshima first edition dustjacket at NYPL Digital Gallery Hiroshima, the August 31, 1946 Issue of The New Yorker'' 1946 non-fiction books Books about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki History books about World War II History of mass media in the United States The New Yorker articles Alfred A. Knopf books Anti-war novels Non-fiction novels [[Categoruy