As human beings, we all make mistakes in our lives. We can learn from our mistakes and move on to a hopeful future by using the knowledge learned from these actions and empathy towards those affected. The number of lives nuclear weapons have taken or ruined is astounding. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima destroyed most of the city and killed around 100,000 people total. Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a survivor whose story was told in Hiroshima by John Heresy, was crushed underneath a large piece of furniture where she worked. Her left leg was fractured in 2 places, and in the end, never healed properly. Later in life she would get her leg reset. She was engaged before the bomb dropped, and after the disaster, the engagement was broken off because
