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Hiroshima

Hiroshima. By John Hersey. Overview of Slideshow. Background of John Hersey Story of Hiroshima’s publication Facts about the Atomic Bomb and the events surrounding its use Main characters. John Hersey. Born on June 17, 1914 in Tientsin, China.

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Hiroshima

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  1. Hiroshima By John Hersey

  2. Overview of Slideshow • Background of John Hersey • Story of Hiroshima’s publication • Facts about the Atomic Bomb and the events surrounding its use • Main characters

  3. John Hersey • Born on June 17, 1914 in Tientsin, China. • Graduated from Yale and Cambridge then began a distinguished writing career • Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for A Bell for Adano

  4. Publication of Hiroshima • Originally appeared in The New Yorker on Aug. 31 1946 as a long article • Story was later published as a novel • Last chapter added in 1973

  5. The Manhattan Project • Pres. Roosevelt was warned by Einstein in 1939 about nuclear research by the Nazis • M.P. started in 1942 by FDR

  6. Manhattan Project • First nuclear reaction in 1942 (Fermi @ U of Chicago) • U-235 created in 1945 in Oak Ridge • July 16,1945 first nuclear test in White Sands NM

  7. The Little Boy • Created with U-235 • The bomb dropped on Hiroshima • Dropped on Aug. 6 1945 by the Enola Gay at 8:45 a.m.

  8. City of Hiroshima

  9. City of Hiroshima • Japan’s 7th largest city • Had not been bombed yet • Headquarters of Japan’s second army • Factories for war materials

  10. Facts about A-Bomb • Blast equaled 15,000 tons of TNT • Detonated about 1000 feet above the ground (hypocenter) • Hiroshima surprised because of only one B-29 plane seen that morning

  11. Miss Toshiko Sasaki Dr. Masakazu Fujii Mrs.. Hatsuyo Nakamura Dr. Terufumi Sasaki The Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge Characters

  12. A clerk for the East Asia Tin Works Chatting with a co-worker when the bomb exploded Miss Toshiko Sasaki

  13. Dr. Masakazu Fujii • Dr. who owns a private hospital • Just sat down to read the paper when the bomb exploded

  14. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura • A tailor’s widow • She was looking through her kitchen window when the bomb exploded

  15. Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge • A German Jesuit Priest • He was reading a magazine in a cot when the bomb exploded

  16. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki • A young surgeon • He was walking along a hospital corridor when the bomb exploded.

  17. The Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto • Pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church. • He was unloading a cart of clothes when the bomb exploded.

  18. Looking Back • “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” - Robert Oppenheimer Supervising Scientist Manhattan Project

  19. Looking Back • The Dropping of the A-Bomb has remained a very controversial subject • Was it necessary? • What were the results?

  20. The End

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