Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a story of six people who lived through the greatest single man made disaster in history. In this story each of the six people relive their own story on August 6, 1945, at exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning Japanese time. Each person's view of the first ever war to use an atomic bomb is a devastating sight. Through their eyes, the reality of the magnitude this bomb brought is reasonably understood by the graphical details that are given. Through reading this book and these people's accounts of this great disaster I have come to realize what a nuclear war could result into if precautions are not taken not only by the civilians but also more importantly by the head of our country.Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a twenty- year old clerk, had just sat down in her office when the atomic bomb had hit Hiroshima. She had just finished putting some things away in her drawers and shifting through some papers. As she turned her head to say something to a girl, the room was filled with a blinding light. Being paralyzed by fear and still fixed in her chair for a long moment, everything fell and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling had dropped and the floor above had collapsed heaving the people above down with
The next thing that he remembers is that he was wandering around in his underwear in his garden bleeding slightly from small cuts. He also went on to save hundreds to thousands of people. Statistical workers reported that 78, 150 people had been killed, 13, 983 were missing, and 37, 425 had been injured. Kleinsorge had luckily survived the bomb. Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional livelihood. His Japanese slippers zipped out from under his feet but other than that he was untouched. The Japanese deserved to get bombed but after seeing what they all had to go through, I don't think I could ever wish it upon anybody. The doctor was thrown forward and around and over losing track where he was because things were so speeded up; he hit the water. He was a step behind an open window when the bomb hit and the reflected light like a gigantic photographic flash was in the corridor. Then for a few seconds or even minutes he went out of his mind. They calculated about twenty-five percent had died form direct burns from the bomb, about fifty percent from other injuries, and about twenty percent as a result of radiation effects.
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