In What Did You Do In The War by Zoe Tracy Hardy, Hardy talks about her experience working in the Glenn L. Martin Company, which made the B-29 bombers, and the great Superfortresses. Hardy wanted to make a difference, she did a year at the University of Iowa, and she felt that it just wasn't enough for her at the time. She wanted to do contribute to ending the war that was raging in Japan. Hardy ended up getting a job in the reproduction department handling all the blueprints. What Hardy didn't know was what the blueprints were actually for, and what they would lead to building, which was the atomic bomb that we would later drop on Hiroshima, and dissolve it into little piece, killing thousands of innocent humans. John Berger, who wrote Hiroshima, writes about the accounts of Hiroshima through a book he received through a friend. The book is called Unforgettable Fire. The book is filled with paintings and drawing made by the survivors who witnessed the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. They drew pictures, closely related to hell, so Berger writes about how sickening it was what we Americans did to the innocent Japanese people who really didn't have much to do with the war. He writes how what we did in the United States was not right. In this essay, I will be writing through Hardy's perspective, and write on the points that she would agree with the most and how I think she would feel in Berger's essay, and if she were to have known what she did know after the attacks, she would have never of chose to help in the construction of the atomic bomb.
To begin, Berger states in the beginning of his essay about how he was looking through the book of the survivors accounts that a friend had sent him. He stated as he was reading through and looking at the photos that the survivors drew that, "But after repeatedly looking at them what began as an impression became a certainty. These were images of hell.