The first bomb was dropped fifteen minutes before eight on August, 6th 1945. The city’s residents had been expecting a raid, however nothing could have prepared them for the Uranium gun-type atomic bomb which engulfed their city in a burning white light that morning. This bomb was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and even the speculations and theories of survivors could not begin to explain what it was. Each and every account of what happened that day varies, whether the person was in Hiroshima, or across the country in the United States. There are those who felt the heat of that blinding white light, and those who saw it from a little box in their living room, even those who read about it in a textbook at school, everyone’s experience
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Mr. Tanimoto woke up at 5 O’clock that morning, made breakfast, then went to work with his colleague Mr. Matsuo. The two men were moving a tansu (a large Japanese cabinet) for a customer, when there was a great white flash across the sky. They were two miles from the center of the explosion and each had time to react, Mr. Matsuo buried himself beneath bedrolls, while Mr. Tanimoto wedged himself between two boulders. He did not see what happened but felt as fragments of the house showered over him. He did not recall hearing any noise, there were very few who did. Dr. Fujii was sitting on a porch in his underwear reading a book when he saw the flash, it startled him quite a bit. Then the building which he was relaxing on began to fall, and as it’s frame ripped from the ground it toppled into the river along with Dr. Fujii. By some miracle he was okay, his head and body kept above water by a specific configuration of timber. He floated in the remains of the building, surrounded by splintered boards, and broken tiles. Approximately 150,000 people were not as lucky as these three men, and even after surviving the explosion there were still repercussions such as radiation, and wounds that would never fully heal. Most survivors spent the rest of their lives still recovering from the aftermath of the catastrophic
Mr. Tanimoto woke up at 5 O’clock that morning, made breakfast, then went to work with his colleague Mr. Matsuo. The two men were moving a tansu (a large Japanese cabinet) for a customer, when there was a great white flash across the sky. They were two miles from the center of the explosion and each had time to react, Mr. Matsuo buried himself beneath bedrolls, while Mr. Tanimoto wedged himself between two boulders. He did not see what happened but felt as fragments of the house showered over him. He did not recall hearing any noise, there were very few who did. Dr. Fujii was sitting on a porch in his underwear reading a book when he saw the flash, it startled him quite a bit. Then the building which he was relaxing on began to fall, and as it’s frame ripped from the ground it toppled into the river along with Dr. Fujii. By some miracle he was okay, his head and body kept above water by a specific configuration of timber. He floated in the remains of the building, surrounded by splintered boards, and broken tiles. Approximately 150,000 people were not as lucky as these three men, and even after surviving the explosion there were still repercussions such as radiation, and wounds that would never fully heal. Most survivors spent the rest of their lives still recovering from the aftermath of the catastrophic