Hiroshima written by John Hersey is a wartime novel about the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. The author serves as the narrator in a third person point of view, which allows the narrator to follow the benevolent actions of multiple characters simultaneously. The story revolves around what these characters ...
Trying to choose five of a plethora of top military inventions is like asking a kid in a candy store what his top favorite candies are. Throughout history the military has had a superfluity of inventions that have forever changed the dynamics of combat and the politics governing conflicts and wars. The top 5 inventions ...
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Japanese-controlled Manchuria in 1945 is largely a forgotten campaign in the west. In our history books, the defeat of Japan at the end of World War II is attributed to the United States, its close allies, and the use of the atomic bomb. What we overlook is that the Soviet’s ...
With any event in history it is impossible to 100% accurately predict a what if situation. Such is the case is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is impossible to say with absolute certainty one way or the other in the debate of whether the atomic bomb should ...
