hiroshima-shi (japan)

Journal excerpts chronicle the experiences Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, had in the days following the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima.

This book relays the factual details of the dropping of the atomic bombs that took place during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Manhattan Project scientist, a witness in Hiroshima, and an aide to the US secretary of war. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

Describes the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the events leading up to the bombings, and the aftermath.

Archival footage and interviews with participants and scholars tell the story of the decision by the United Statesto use nuclear weapons against Japan to end World War II.

Describes the development of the atomic bomb in the first half of the twentieth century, and discusses the decision by the United States to drop the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 in an effort to bring World War II to an end.

Set in the three weeks from the test explosion in New Mexico to the dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made, on board the Enola Gay, and in Hiroshima.