Hiroshima By John Hersey Essay

John Hersey was a Journalist that was sent by The New Yorker to Hiroshima, Japan, to write about what happened after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. To accomplish that Hersey interviewed six people that were in Hiroshima the day the atomic bomb was dropped and used what they experienced to write the book Hiroshima which shows what each of the six individuals experiences the day the bomb was dropped and days after.
The United States government decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan. But why did they decide to drop it on the city of Hiroshima? In the book Hiroshima Hersey states the reason to why the Unite States decided to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima:
The ruined city had flourished and had been an inviting target mainly because it had been one of the most important military command and communications’ centers in Japan, and would have become the Imperial headquarters had the island been invaded and Tokyo been captured. Now there
People had burns on their bodies, pieces of skin falling off, broken bones due to falling debris, and even more unimaginable injuries. The sad thing is that many of the people that had those type of injuries could have been saved, but because there was not enough doctors available or proper medication or supplies to aid the people that needed it many of them died. People were dying in the hospitals waiting for a doctor to see them and others were dying in the streets by the cause of them being burnt from the fires or from falling debris. The people that received the least visible damage were the people that received radiation sickness. Radiation sickness causes nausea and vomiting, hair loss, and severe fatigue, which is why the six people that Hersey interviewed saw or personally experienced vomiting in Ason Park and little to low levels of energy by the cause of the fatigue, but Mrs. Nakamura was the only one out of the six that experienced hair