"Hiroshima" is a non-fiction story that takes place in 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan which explains the tales of 6 main survivors of an Atomic Bomb air raid dropped by the United States at exactly 8:15 a.m. on August 6,1945 over the city of Hiroshima which kills over 100,000 thousand people and leaves many wounded with radiation damage. Why did we drop the A-Bomb over Hiroshima? Since Pearl Harbor when the Japanese had bombed American ships the U.S. and Japan have been at a constant war. The United States wanted the war to end quickly because we were losing thousands of American lives and costly resources. From dropping the bomb we saved a land invasion of Japan, which had an estimated death toll of at least 500,000 troops.
The story reveals six main survivors of the atomic bomb. Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works she is sitting in her office at the time the bomb strikes and a book case topples over her and knocks her unconscious, Dr.......
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