During the hot summer months of 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6. It was known as the first atomic bomb that was ever to be plummeted on a city. It was released from an American plane on the 245,000 occupants of Hiroshima, Japan. This left a lot of the city desolated and thousands of its inhabitants dead. Some of its individuals were able to survive and endure the incapacitating effects of chronic radiation sickness and burns. This proposal will deal with the six lives of those that were able to survive the explosion and then narrate the aftermath or the days.
The proposal will clarify that throughout the evening of August 6, these survivors had to fight in order to stay alive. The city had turned into a razing ball of flame, and the park during that filled with whirlwinds and radiation rain. This proposal will explore how the tragedy of thousands of people had to do what they had to do in order to make it in the days that were after the bomb. The proposal will go into detail talking about how in the hours ahead following the bombing, each of those that had managed to survive endeavors to free herself or himself, in order that they find their loved ones, and bring some relief to others if possible. People like Dr. Sasaki who was a survivor would do anything that they could in order to create some kind of bandages for the injured.
In conclusion, this proposal will shed light on life before the bomb and the trouble that came after it. It will highlight the survivors experience as they had to overcome the hardships of the aftermath. This proposal will also examine in detail the testimonies of the survivors.
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