Question

2. "Hiroshima ceased to exist". Analyse this comment of Marcel Junod with regards to 'The First Atom Bomb'.
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Answer 1

Marcel Junod’s essay The First Atom Bomb describes the terrible destruction of practically everything of the once prosperous city of Hiroshima in Japan on 6th August, 1945 as a result of the atom bomb, used for the first time in warfare. Though the Second World War ended soon after, it revealed the great danger of a war in future. The whole essay may be divided into three sharp sections on the three following points

(a) The description of the prosperous Hiroshima,

(b) The detailed account of the destruction of the city by the atom bomb,

(c) MacArthur’s speech on the futility of war.