"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" This is the question posed by Mahatma Gandhi, which can be applied to many of the wars that the United States has encountered in the past century, including World War II and the Vietnam War, which are the historical subjects of literary works by John Hersey and Ron Kovic. The destruction, physically and emotionally, of both wars are shown very differently through the two accounts of the wars, through stylistic efforts, as well as the facts and their presentation.
John Hersey's Hiroshima details the lives of six people in Hiroshima, Japan, immediately before the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as the aftermath of the attack. The subjects of Hersey's work include people from all backgrounds, including a Jesuit Priest, two doctors, a Methodist Pastor, a young clerk, and a mother and her three children. Because Hersey used a diverse group of people as subjects, the reader is able to see all aspects of what happened.
Hersey greatly focuses on the physical devastation caused by the bomb. One hundred thousand people were killed as the bomb detonated, with three hundred fifty thousand feeling the physical effects of the bomb. Only two of the six subjects of Hersey's chronicle, Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto and Doctor Terufumi Sasaki, were uninjured. Because these two men were uninjured, they were able to help the people around them, as Tanimoto transferred people by boat to safety, and Sasaki worked for three days straight at the Red Cross Hospital. Much of the physical destructiveness of the bomb is seen through the eyes of these two gentlemen, who saw many people, in differing conditions, as they tried to help them.
The remaining four subjects of Hiroshima were all debilitated in some way. Miss Toshiko Sasaki suffered a broken leg, Doctor Masakazu Fujii was too badly injured to help anybody else, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge fell victim to radiation sickness, along with Mrs.
Nuclear war was brought about through the invention of the atomic bomb. ... The bomb was tested in northern New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. ... The atomic bomb was again set off in Hiroshima on August 4th, 1945. ... After the war many Hiroshima citizens felt the building should be torn down. ... She is said to be the Anne Frank of Hiroshima. ...
In the middle of war, the higher ups in the government and military like to think they have the knowledge of all aspects of what is going on in the world of war. ... This war was the perfect opportunity to do this and have it be "justified". ... These tests were conducted on July 16, 1945, not even a month before they were to be used on Japan. ... On August 6th, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped a massive, powerful and most deadly weapon the world had ever acknowledged, known as the Atomic bomb, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... These men also had discussed which bomb...
On August 6, 1945, at the cost of over 100,000 lives, the concept of nuclear war was introduced. Hiroshima was the first city ever to be devastated by an atomic bomb. ... By July 1945, the Allied Forces were clearly winning the war in the Pacific. ... Hiroshima was one of them. On the 26th day of July, Japan was demanded to agree to an immediate surrender, known as the Potsdam Declaration. ...
The Bombing of Hiroshima: Necessary or Not? ... In July, when the general learned that Japan had asked Russia to negotiate surrender with United stated, he told his staff: "This is it. ... The bomb devastated the city. ... The utter obliteration of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then Nagasaki three days later did, in fact, bring the Pacific War to an end. ... For the United States during the years between Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were two wars; the European war and the Pacific War. ...
Hiroshima And Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan's industrial capital. The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. ... It is for this...
Instead, I will show that the devastation and destruction that those bombs cost, was more about political power than the people that suffered from the bombs. ... The effect on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the atomic bombs are disturbing. Over 80,000 people were killed just in Hiroshima alone. In Nagasaki, the radiation from the blast was more intense than that of Hiroshima. ... Devastation and destruction of people and a country last a lifetime....
The Research Effort Struggles 1941-1945 Factors including internal struggles, a major scientific error, and the devastation of total war compromised any successful research toward a German atom bomb. ... On July 16, 1945, at a site called Trinity in south central New Mexico, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. ... Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ambitions during the cold war. ... At ...
Hiroshima devastation occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15am. ... The bombing of Hiroshima occurred as Colonel Tibbets instructed the United States to drop two atomic bombs in Japan as it will forcibly make them surrender, to end World War II. ... The attack against Hiroshima was committed by the United States to make a statement to end World War II. ... The similarities between Hiroshima and the World Trade Center were done because of war. ... With the terrorist attack made against the World Trade Center, it was committed with its own property that also cost thousands of lives. ...
Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, is an informative first-hand account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Unlike stories which report such devastation, Hersey's was not on the scene and did not attempt to incite, only to report. ... Hiroshima should ideally appeal to all readers of our modern war society. ... I don't know if anyone would "enjoy" reading about the devastation and suffering that this story details. ... Hersey transmits the ideas that war involves much more than battle plans and armies. ...