Ms. Motoko Niitta Short Story

“We have to protect our Earth, so our children and grandchildren will never suffer like that,’ she said. And she looked ahead. ‘Maybe nuclear weapons won’t be abolished while I’m alive,’ she said. ‘But I will never give up.” (Hanley, NBC News). August 6, 1945 at 8:16 in the morning, the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on thousands of unsuspecting people in Hiroshima, Japan. Not only did this catastrophic event kill thousands of civilians, but it also resulted in other nations obtaining and learning how to create these deadly weapons, weapons that we still have today. In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey he gives readers a new look at that day, through the eyes of six victims who survived the horrific attack on Hiroshima, he shows how the entire city of Hiroshima suffered, and were left alone to fend for themselves.The book Hiroshima by John Hersey, sheds light on the immense dangers of nuclear warfare, and the government's responsibility for its people, affected by a war they aren’t fighting in.

On August 6th 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima by the American army. Author John Hersey document the lives of six survivors before, during, and after the detonation of the bomb. These six survivors were Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Mrs. Hatsune Nakamura, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, Miss Toshiko Sasaki and Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge. Mr. Tanimoto, a

The bomb caused many slow-moving fires throughout the city, some of which soon encroached upon the park. The fire pushed the wounded toward the riverbank, which became overcrowded, causing many of those that could be saved to drown. This was only one example of what was seen that day by the survivors. Eventually, Miss Sasaki was rescued from the factory in which she became trapped, but was then left under a makeshift shack for days on end before being rescued again. With a broken and gangrenous leg, Sasaki survives after finally being taken to a hospital. Whatever the survivors of the bombing of the city of Hiroshima experienced, the thing they share is survival.

that did not die immediately suffered severe illness related to the bomb (Hiroshima 1) .

18. She had lots of vacations. She went to bar harbor in Maine. She also visited the grand canyon, Hawaii, Norway and saw pearl harbor in in Hawaii. She also went to Michigan and Florida on vacations with her

parent. After her birth, they moved to New York, leaving Dorothy, at 5 months old,

dropped single atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and

With the war in Europe ending shortly after Adolf Hitler committing suicide in his office, America is under pressure to end the war in Asia but Japan is still putting up fierce resistance. On August 6, around 8:00 AM, an American B-29 flew over Hiroshima, Japan carrying the world’s most feared weapons, a weapon which can flatten a whole city in seconds, Equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT. This new technology is called an atomic bomb. The primary target of “Little Boy” (the atomic bomb) was Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima was of industrial and military significance. A number of military camps were located nearby, including the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the

On August 9, 1945 at 11:02 AM an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki Japan and resulted in the death of

Sachi’s family did not survive in the disaster in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Sachi loses her father on an island in the Pacific and her sister Riko in the bombing. (page 24 & 30)

Later on we see how there were more bombings being made, not only this one at Trinity State. The United States was trying to make Japan surrender but they denied it. Because of this the United States developed a new bomb named little boy which was detonated in Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6, 1945 it exploded with an altitude of 1,750 feet. Over 69% of Hiroshima’s buildings were destroyed and about 7% damaged. About 80,000 (or about 30%) of the people in Hiroshima were killed instantly and another 70,000 were injured.

Sueichi Kido, a survivor from the atomic bomb spoke out on his thoughts on his thoughts of the atomic bomb on May 26, 2016. Although he was only five years old at the time he still remembers hearing the Enola Gay flying over as if were yesterday. Kido was eating somen noodles when he heard a loud plane engine flying above, an instant later he

Toshiko Saeki who, at the time of the bombing, was with her children at her

On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor

On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima had been almost eradicated with an estimated 70-80,000 people killed. Three days later, a second, more powerful bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing over 100,000 people. Since Japan was economically and militarily devastated by the late summer of 1945, the use of the atomic bombs on an already overcome Japan was unnecessary and unwarranted in bringing about a conclusion to the war in the Pacific.