“It was several days before the survivors of Hiroshima knew they had company, because the Japanese radio and newspapers were being extremely cautions on the subject of the strange weapon” (p. 57)
This passage confuses me because I do not really understand what the meaning of “the survivors of Hiroshima knew they had company” is. What company did they have?
3 comments:
I think "company" means the people who are compaionship with Japanese governemt in here, so Japanese government can know the information about the weapon.
I think it mean because the survivors didn't know they had visitor by the Japanese people. I think the word "campany in this sentence means "vistitor".
In this passage, the "company" that the survivors of Hiroshima did not know they had would be the survivors of the bombing of Nagasaki, which took place three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. In this case, "company" refers to other people who had had a simiar experience, which would be the survivors of the other use of an atomic bomb.
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