The atomic bomb struck Hiroshima. A flash of dazzling light shot across the sky; then a huge purplish mushroom cloud boiled 40,000 feet into the atmosphere. Dense smoke, swirling fires, and suffocating dust soon engulfed the ground for miles. Much of the city was leveled almost instantly. Approximately 130,000 people were killed; tens of thousands more suffered severe burns and nuclear poisoning. (A People and a Nation 787) This was just one of the many incidents that occurred during
             In history, war is supposedly the answer to all problems. War is use as a tool to obtain land, fight off terrorists, and gain power. However, the truth is that it actually inflicts hardships and death. War shifts and destroys whole communities and economies, making it difficult for survival. War causes the changing relationships between nations, societies, and individuals. To some, war brings about the loneliness of fear and the self-absorption of misery. It changes the people as well as the fighters themselves. The men who emerge from the trenches are marked for life by deep, irreparable psychic wounds. (All Quiet on the Western Front Notes, 13) The bombardment that leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, allow diseases to take hold and mortality in every age group to increase.
             War is nothing but the act of ruthless behavior, tearing precious lives and ruining the land of the innocent. It does not bring goodness towards the people, but places a deeper battle for them emotionally and physically, and with Erich Maria Remarque's great war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, he portray the senselessness and futility of war through the eyes of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment. In the prologue, Remarque said:
             "This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventu
             ...