Annotation - Chapter 11, Page 76
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White shadows or "Hiroshima shadows" are produced when a surface is darkened by the heat flash of a nuclear explosion, except for the part that was blocked by some intervening object. The infamous shadows found near ground zero at Hiroshima showed the outlines of people who had been standing in front of a wall.