Personal Narrative: The First Atomic Bomb Used In Warfare
The first atom bomb used in warfare was dropped on Japan, Hiroshima, a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu, was the target in this first use.
Most of the buildings were destroyed and 80,000 people were killed instantly The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Few knew what the effects would be. There had been only one other bomb of this kind previously detonated. The destruction unleashed on the city was total. About 70 percent of all buildings and 80,000 people were obliterated in an instant.
I was living in my quiet, tranquil home in the hills of Nagasaki along with my grandmother and aunt. We lived a normal and quiet life together. I often felt quite lonely because there were no …show more content…
A reporter’s voice is heard through the static and I pause to listen. “Everything within the city has been devastated by the bomb and people had to wait for help from elsewhere. In an area of four and a half square miles around ground zero, that is the point on the ground immediately below the bomb explosion, every living person or animal was destroyed. With an atom bomb explosion extremely high pressures and equally high temperatures are present, far greater than are ever experienced in industrial enterprises. The bomb was dropped from a high elevation and timed to go off as it neared the ground. Directly below the bomb everything was vaporized.” the reporter announces. “Moreover, almost 80,000 people died, and you can see there is much radiation from the bomb. People are coughing some are even unable to stand. The heat killed many people burning them through their skins causing them to die. Many railroad ties, clothes, and trees were instantly in flames from the intensity of the heat.” The reporter continues talking and I attentively pay attention to every word spoken. “People standing beside concrete walls when the bomb exploded left a silhouette on the wall. Everything else about them had vanished. Others were burned or cut by flying pieces of metal, wood, or glass.” Listening to that made me gasp in disbelief. That was just horrible. The reporter continues, but I turn off the radio unable to listen to anymore of
Most of the buildings were destroyed and 80,000 people were killed instantly The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Few knew what the effects would be. There had been only one other bomb of this kind previously detonated. The destruction unleashed on the city was total. About 70 percent of all buildings and 80,000 people were obliterated in an instant.
I was living in my quiet, tranquil home in the hills of Nagasaki along with my grandmother and aunt. We lived a normal and quiet life together. I often felt quite lonely because there were no …show more content…
A reporter’s voice is heard through the static and I pause to listen. “Everything within the city has been devastated by the bomb and people had to wait for help from elsewhere. In an area of four and a half square miles around ground zero, that is the point on the ground immediately below the bomb explosion, every living person or animal was destroyed. With an atom bomb explosion extremely high pressures and equally high temperatures are present, far greater than are ever experienced in industrial enterprises. The bomb was dropped from a high elevation and timed to go off as it neared the ground. Directly below the bomb everything was vaporized.” the reporter announces. “Moreover, almost 80,000 people died, and you can see there is much radiation from the bomb. People are coughing some are even unable to stand. The heat killed many people burning them through their skins causing them to die. Many railroad ties, clothes, and trees were instantly in flames from the intensity of the heat.” The reporter continues talking and I attentively pay attention to every word spoken. “People standing beside concrete walls when the bomb exploded left a silhouette on the wall. Everything else about them had vanished. Others were burned or cut by flying pieces of metal, wood, or glass.” Listening to that made me gasp in disbelief. That was just horrible. The reporter continues, but I turn off the radio unable to listen to anymore of