Hiroshima's Garden Where the Ashes Fell

On August 6, 1945, a single bomb turned Hiroshima into a wasteland. Scientists predicted nothing would grow there for seventy-five years. The soil was poison. The rivers ran black. Survivors — the hibakusha — wandered through a landscape emptied of every familiar thing. But within weeks, something happened that no one expected. Red canna lilies pushed through the scorched earth.…