Book “Hiroshima in History and Memory”

Q1.
The bombing of Hiroshima was a horrific event that happened in world war 11. Michael j Hogan wrote a book which reflects how the attack has affected commemoration of the event. Michael J. Hogan’s book HIROSHIMA IN HISTORY AND MEMORY gives many essays written by different cultural and powerful historians who critically analyzed the attacking of Hiroshima using documents that were unclassified and past commentary that emphasized why and how the bomb was dropped. It is by all means essential to understand the unwise choice that President Truman had to make that is dropping the bomb and the effects it has had decades after. He clearly states that the essays in that book attempt to present the facts within. Each historian, for example J. Samuel Walker, Barton J. Bernstein, and many other hosts insistent that dropping a bomb to end war did not justify saving casualties from the military but the fear of an immediate power on the rise.
The six Hiroshima survivors narrate of their power of chance. They either attributed their survival to fate, luck, higher power but still they know deep within them that they were just vulnerable like their over one hundred counterparts who died in the bombing. Mrs. Nakamura was just one household far where her neighbor died instantly. Theories had been developed and explored; however, most people are left confused and ignorant for the entire week until the news started spreading that it was an atomic bomb. Even when the facts were out, out, that it was the first atomic bomb ever used as a weapon, the Japanese, American or anyone had no idea its long or short term effects.

Q.2
Sometimes it is tricky to determine a writer’s theses if not directly stated. Michael was attempting to write in the objective account of the attack. In so doing he kept his opinion out of the book. In such a case the thesis can be a matter of views, based on the evidence provided by the writer in the work. He was concerned with the suffering and the fate of those who lived through the blast. Although the bomb presented a step forward in the science world and speeded the end of the war, there was a profound cost in the death of human and untold suffering.
Q.3
This is not an easy legacy to bear. This was evident in the anguished debate over the decision to show the remains of the Enola Gay. The B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the National Museum at the golden jubilee anniversary.
Theories had been developed and explored; however, most people are left confused and ignorant for the entire week until the news started spreading that it was an atomic bomb. Even when the facts were out, out, that it was the first atomic bomb ever used as a weapon, the Japanese, American or anyone had no idea its long or short term effects.
The people Michael describes moves with a sort of heroic stubbornness saving who and what they could while dealing with disturbing images they saw towns bombing. The debates and questioning will never cease. The world will never be the same. The threats of the doomsday weapon are very much with us.
The American and Japanese still remember what happened even after many years have passed and insisted on the construction of a conventional memory of Hiroshima. No scholar accepts that political considerations dictated the decision to through the boom though the consensus that the bomb was used basically for military reasons still prevails.