The Day of the Bomb (in German Sadako Will Leben, meaning Sadako Wants to Live) is a non-fiction book written by the Austrian author Karl Bruckner in 1961.

The story is about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshima and died of illnesses caused by radiation exposure following the atomic bombing of the city in August 1945.

The book was translated into most major languages, published on the World Wide Web, and is often used as material for peace education in schools around the world.

• Children's Peace Monument
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - 1977

• Bruckner, Karl: Sadako will leben Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• SADAKO SASAKI (in German)

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