"(237) From his experience as an art critic and seeing many different photos, especially the ones depicted of hell from mediaeval times, that they were all very close in proximity. Berger is implying that what we did was completely and utterly immoral. Killing innocent people and torturing the few that survived it. I would very much agree with the points that Berger has stated, because I too felt as though what we did in Japan was morally wrong. After the bomb had dropped, I read the news on what I had actually contributed too, and what the blueprints I was handling were blueprints for. I had no idea that the bomb I was building were to wipe out an entire city. I also had similar nightmares of hell, "I went to bed late and had nightmares full of flames and strange dry gale winds. "(216) my moral conscious was haunting me. Since, I felt responsible for these innocent people's deaths. I also, seemed to be caught in her own type of hell full of regret, due to the atomic bomb.
Berger writes about how, us Americans we're not given the truth of what was really being planned during the war against Japan. They purposely kept us in the dark, hiding the horrors that they we're planning for years. When we dropped the bomb on Japan, many people around the world we're in complete shock of the amount of damage the bomb did. They were in shock of the amount of damage and how much death it caused. We weren't completely blind to what was going on though. We asked them to surrender, but they never complied or gave us a response. Even though, rumors were about that Japan was about to admit defeat, that they we're going to surrender, we ignored the rumors and dropped the bomb anyways. But, for what? Japan was practically defeated as it was, they were on the brink of collapsing, yet we still dropped the bomb. Destroying thousands of innocent men, women, and children's lives. What we did, is very much considered an act of terrorism.
