Hiroshima

"Hiroshima" is a non-fiction story that takes place in 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan which explains the tales of 6 main survivors of an Atomic Bomb air raid dropped by the United States at exactly 8:15 a.m. on August 6,1945 over the city of Hiroshima which kills over 100,000 thousand people and leaves many wounded with radiation damage. Why did we drop the A-Bomb over Hiroshima? Since Pearl Harbor when the Japanese had bombed American ships the U.S. and Japan have been at a constant war. The United States wanted the war to end quickly because we were losing thousands of American lives and costly resources. From dropping the bomb we saved a land invasion of Japan, which had an estimated death toll of at least 500,000 troops.

The story reveals six main survivors of the atomic bomb. Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works she is sitting in her office at the time the bomb strikes and a book case topples over her and knocks her unconscious, Dr. Masakazu Fujii who was sitting in front of his clinic at the time of the explosion and flew into water, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailors widow who was at home with her three children and heard air raid warnings before the bomb dropped had took precautions before hand to take cover, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the society of Jesus in his mission house at the time which is double braced for earthquakes and does not topple who was reading a magazine in his room when the bomb strikes, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large Red Cross Hospital who had caught an earlier train than usual and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church. At this time in Japan Hiroshima was one of the few cities, which had never been bombed before. Citizens of Hiroshima had been receiving air raid warnings weeks before the bomb was dropped and knew their city was to get bombed eventually.

To many citizens at first, the damage of the bomb was not believable

because they had heard no explosive sounds and saw no airplanes flying above.