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 ...
Fat Man and Little Boy Little Boy was a gun type Uranium Bomb. It was dropped on Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. It had an explosive force of about the same as 15,000 tons of TNT. The City of Hiroshima had about 43,000 soldiers and 300,000 civilians. There ...
On August 6th, 1945, a single B 29 bomber flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped a single bomb. Seconds later, a nuclear explosion snuffed out the lives of eighty thousand Japanese in an instant. The nuclear age had begun. A hundred thousand more Japanese would eventually die of burns, shock, radiation poisoning, ...
Sometimes events in the world that are terrible and unfortunate are wished to be forgotten and never repeated again. In the story autumn gardening a survivor of the Hiroshima bombings whose name is Mariko is asked by her best friend, Mitsuye, to relive the terrible event and share her experiences with the world. I think ...
