Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Atomic Bomb

Have you ever read something that changes your perspective on a topic? Hiroshima was a book written by John Hersey, depicting the lives of six individuals that survived the atomic bomb of 1945. Without this book one could not truly determine if what we did to the Japanese was justified or not. We can also look at the way the journalism shapes our out look on things. This is why we always need to look at all the facts before we truly make up our mind on a subject. The book Hiroshima was a great story that was told through a third party perspective in order to explain the horrors of the atomic bomb. A few of the individuals duplicated were the widow Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura and the doctor Terufumi Sasaki. These two had inspirational stories told in this book. Mrs. Nakamura was one of the only characters who took care of a family by herself. One of the only thing she had to go through was a radiation sickness and poverty, which was caused because of the war. Dr. Sasaki was a surgeon at Red Cross during the bombing. Luckily he was not hurt during the bombing, but imitatively started to help those who were. We can tell Dr. Sasaki is a selfless person, shown in how he helped people without a permit. In doing this without a permit he could have been severely punish but did not care. Now if one was to not read this book they would not have any idea what people had to go through after the bomb. So without this one would not have all the information to come to a conclusion of if the United States was justified in the bombing. If one just knew that a few thousand died during the bombing. They could say yes if we killed that many in-order to save a other innocents. But we learn who was actually bomb not the soldiers but civilians. We then think of it on a more personal level and say no it was not justified because of the thousands dead and hurt. Another we learn how journalism plays a part in war. Lets say he never wrote it, it could be speculated that no one would have