Little Boy

Hiroshima by John Hersey is a historical nonfiction book that tells the stories of six survivors of the devastating nuclear bomb dropped on Japan on August 6th, 1945. Each character feels the effects of the bomb directly and has to deal with the changes in their formerly ordinary lives, along with the misery and hysteria, and the mysterious radiation sickness that follows the devastating nuclear explosion. This book was mostly written to dispel derogatory views of the Japanese in America during…

Imagine going back in time, putting yourself in the shoes of the Hiroshima civilians in 1945. It’s a normal day, but suddenly a bright flash passes. You see the people around you disintegrate, disappearing from the world. One second they’re here, and the next, not even a single trace. The only thing that kept you alive was the walls of two buildings. August 6, 1945 is a day that will remain in our hearts forever. There were many places we traveled in Hiroshima, but to me the Peace Park was the…

On August 6, 1945 at 8:15am, an American B-29 bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was unlike anything seen before. The city was flattened immediately. 8,000 people were killed as a result of the bomb and another 35,000 were injured. Japan still didn’t surrender. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped by the Americans on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Afterwards, on August 15, 1945, Japan finally surrendered. World War Two was over.…

In the 1940s, the atomic bomb was undergoing development and in August of 1945, the first non-test atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 bomber on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another was dropped, 3 days later, in Nagasaki. Some justify the attack because it spared the lives of many American and Japanese soldiers that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan, which was the alternative to the bombings. However, the cons outweigh the pros: the bombs caused mass civilian casualties,…

The horrific event on Boylston Street changed the lives of many in only 12 seconds on April 15th, 2013. People crossing the finish line were very lucky. It was the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, the one that changed lives inside and outside. It was no different for Josh. Everyone watches as I cross the finish line with the time of 2 hours, 10 minutes and 22 seconds. My long legs were blown out after running the 26 miles 385 yards. I walked slowly over to the tent for food and rest…

unconditionally otherwise? And if the Japanese would not surrender, wouldn’t it make the U.S. efforts of bombings pointless and worthless? This would prolong the war and there would be more deaths and casualties on both the U.S. and the Japanese sides. So, the little more than two hundred thousand deaths on the Japanese side because of the bombings can be justified in front of more than 418,000 loses of American lives in this war. The large number of Japanese civilian death (resulted by the…

On August 6, 1945, the American bomber, Enola Gay dropped a single bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was an atomic bomb, a weapon developed in the United States in great secrecy. This was followed by, a bombing on Nagasaki which took place a few days later. The event of the bombings ended the biggest catastrophe in the world known as World War II. The bombings led to hundreds of thousands of death but in return saved the world from a terrible unknown future. The bombings of Hiroshima…

The Bomb That Changed Everything August 6, 1945 was a dark day in human history: the day that the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used on a civilian population over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, although sources vary, it is estimated at least 70,000 people were killed as a result of the initial blast. The total casualty count (including the effects of radiation sickness) was upwards of 150,000 according to inicom.com. Three days later, after the Japanese refused…

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” That’s what the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, recalled when he watched the first ever test of the atomic bomb. Many scientists who made the atomic bomb were against using it because of the amount of destruction they could cause. I’m going to explain to you what caused the start of the Manhattan Project, why it is called the Manhattan Project, the goals of the project, who were the people in charge, and why they dropped the…

The Bomb and its Effects At the time it was being built they didn’t quite know what to make it out of. They ended up building it out of a plutonium core. In order to make the bomb go off they had to have fission occur . Of course to have this happen, you need a large space. Thus the nickname “Fat Man” . Fat Man got its nickname for a good reason, because it weighed over 10,000 pounds, was about 130 inches long, and had a diameter of close to 60 inches (3). When the bomb detonated it would have…