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 Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshima and died of illnesses caused by atomic-bomb radiation. 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.