The research paper that I am going to present is about the "Atomic Bomb Of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member " by William L Laurence and "Hiroshima" by John Berger. By mid-summer 1944.

On August 6 1944: the war is taking place in Japan. The nuclear war starts to take place for first time in the history of Japan. The research paper that I am going to present is about the “Atomic Bomb Of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member “ by William L Laurence and “Hiroshima” by John Berger. By mid-summer 1944, as (www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/ ) said the war in Europe against Germany and Italy was over, yet the US and Japan were still fighting in the Pacific. In an effort to end WWII, President Harry Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan. On August 6th, 1944, at 8:15 am, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing 140,000 people. The explosion was equivalent to 18,500 tons of dynamite and destroyed everything in a radius of 6,000-8,000 feet from the center of the city. 98% of the buildings in Hiroshima were destroyed or severely damaged by the blast. Three days later, as “www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/ - 4k” said a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing 70,000 people, which resulted in Japan surrendering the next day. Within five years, deaths to the direct explosion of the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki reached an estimated over 200,000 people. Survivors are still dying of illnesses from the radiation poisoning caused by the explosion since today. The radiation generated by the bomb caused long –term problems to those affected. Many people died within the first few months `and many more in subsequent years because of radiation exposure. Some people had genetic problems, which sometimes resulted in having malformed babies or being unable to have children.

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John Berger takes the article from “ www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/ - 4k “ and elaborates it further. Both articles are dealing with the main thing, which is the bombing of Japan. However, both articles “Hiroshima “ and “The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member” even if they measure the same thing are different from each other. The first article, which is “Hiroshima” by the author John Berger, is dealing more with the tragedy of the dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, about eyewitnesses’ story, the chaos and the catastrophe, and about the result of the attack and how it is related with a terrorist attack. On the other hand, reading the article about the “The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member” the point of view is different from the first article, which is “Hiroshima”. That article mostly is dealing with the strategy for dropping the atomic bomb, how the atomic bomb is different from other bombs, about the weather before the attack, the way to the Japan and how the atomic bomb looks like from forty five thousand feet. The article also suggested that Americans assumed that this bomb would end the war.

In the first article, which is “Hiroshima”, the author John Berger is trying to be as detailed as possible about the chaos, the catastrophe, and also about the tragedy of dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author within the article give us lot of examples about the chaos and the catastrophe like “He was burned and swollen all over from the effect of A-bomb” (page 259), and such as “Help me” (page 259). Using those words the author is trying to represent as much as possible the chaos and the catastrophe. By reading this article and thinking about the meaning of those words clearly, you can understand the tragedy and the catastrophe that the atomic bomb brought to those people. You can get the point of view, which is the violence that John Berger is trying to represent through the whole assay.

Eyewitnesses’ stories that the author used like “When I looked out of my window, I saw a several women to coming ………Hiroshima prefecture hospital” in the article make us feel like being in the position of those people that lived at the time that the atomic bomb killed their families. It makes us to feel like we are in the position that nobody wants to be in. Imagine seeing the person that you love, the person that had raised you on her side, your family and everything you have, disappear in a second. Imagine all of this with nothing that you can do to help them. That makes us feel the pain that all these people felt, the pain that each of us felt after the September 11 when terrorists attacked our country. That is the pain, which nobody is going to forget for the rest of his or her life and especially for those who lost good friends and people from their family. The author in the article is talking about a terrorist attack, is talking about a small amount of people who made this terrible murder in Japan. The author is trying to explain that that was a terrorist attack by using “The calculation was terrorist. The indiscriminacy was terrorist. The small groups of terrorists operating today are, by comparison, humane killers.”(Page594)

On the other hand, William L. Laurence in the article “Atomic bomb of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member“ even if the article is about the bombing of Nagasaki like the first article “Hiroshima”, is trying to represent different points of view. He is trying to represent the strategy for dropping the atomic bomb. The weather before the attack and the temperature inside the ship, how the A-bomb looks like from forty five thousand feet and also assumed that this bomb would end the war.

However, dropping a bomb like the A-bomb is not very easy. In order to achieve that, the US military made a lot of strategy plans. Through the article “Atomic bomb of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member” the author is talking about these strategy plans that they had to follow and how they would drop the bomb. First of all, the author explains in his article, the preparation for dropping the bomb. He measures the type of the aircrafts. The plan consisted three B-29 Super forts, and two of these didn’t carry the atomic bomb. The second was three days later, which is, build to destroy everything around 1.5 miles. William L. Lawrence does not measure any tragedy or chaos and catastrophe after the dropping the atomic bomb like John Berger does in his article. Even if both articles are related, the author’s points of view are different.

Through the second article the author measures the weather before the attack and also about the temperature inside the ship. He said, “The night was and threatening, with only a few stars here and there breaking through the overcast” (page 248) thing that is not obvious to the first article which is about Hiroshima. On that point we can understand the difference between the two articles. At the first article the author is talking about the temperature that burn the people instead of the temperature that William L Laurence talks. He is talking about the temperature that destroyed the plans for dropping the A-bomb. He is not talking about the temperature that A-bomb produced and killed million of people.

However, even if William L Laurence does not measure the chaos and the catastrophe from the dropping of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, he measures how the atomic bomb is different from other bombs. He said “will be wiped off the map by the greatest weapon ever made by man”(page 250) that shows us how strong that the bomb was compared to general bombs. The strong wind generated by the bomb destroyed most of the houses and buildings within 1.5 miles radius. Also the author described how the atomic bomb looked from forty five thousand feet. He said “The mushroom top was ever more alive than the pillar….”(page 252). What he described again showed how strong the bomb was. Within that radius what ever is alive the strong wind generated by bomb destroyed everything.

Finally even if both article’s points of view are different between each other, both are relative between. However, the atomic bomb that Americans invented and used in WWII cost the pain for the inhabitants. As I wrote above about the chaos and the catastrophe from the atomic bomb, it will stay forever in our history. It will stay forever to remind us that every war left behind a lot of dead, wounded and ill people. I hope that that war was the last one that people used nuclear weapons.