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Hiroshima Book Critique

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The US chose Hiroshima because of its military importance. Hiroshima was headquarter of Japanese army and was a military city, so it has a high strategic value. Based on the book,” mainly because it had been an inviting target mainly because it had been one of the most important military command and communication’s centers in Japan and would have become the Imperial headquarters and the Islands been invaded and Tokyo been captured.”(HERSEY, P.107). The story implicitly says Hiroshima’s resident weren’t ready for such a horrible explosion. There were no designated shelter or any preparation for such a horrible explosion, so it shows Hiroshima was one of the few cities which hadn’t an airstrike before. At that time the effect and the amount of

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