John Hersey's Hiroshima

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A lot of our history has consisted of a lot of mistakes that have caused loss of life, hatred, and chaos. These mistakes have mostly been made by people, leaders, and governments who are so caught up in their emotions that they don’t think of the consequences that their actions will cause. In John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Hersey uses our past differences to consider the effects of actions on innocent people, so that nations will only use atomic or highly destructive weapons as a last resort.
Thousands of innocent people died in the United States dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. However, we can use this piece of history to learn from and show that we should think about the others in war that don’t particularly have

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