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Hiroshima Book ReportISSUES Briefly describe the issues that are dealt with in the book.     This book was substitute informative to me. This book mainly talked ab out(p) theaffects of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by thefirst atom bomb ever dropped on a city. It speaks about how even if you didsurvive the blast you were so badly injured that you would die soon anyway. Ittalked about an incident where someones eye was melting and was guck take in hisface. It speaks about how houses were lifted of there foundation. After all theresearch about the bomb was made, they reported that 78,150 people had beenkilled, 13,983 were missing, and 37,425 had been injured. Even before the bomb,the citizens of Hiroshima were waken almost all night because of falsewarnings of intruder planes coming in the area. It talked about how a lot ofpeople had to go on living with only one degree or one arm. To me, it brought up agood point, that all those innocent people had do die for nothing.CHAPTER SUMMARY Briefly summarize each of the chapters main ideas, narrativefeatures.The first chapter is called "A Noiseless Flash." The title kind ofspeaks for it self. That was exactly how the bomb was. No one saw anything orheard anything but a flash. The first chapter speaks about how people arewondering why they are alive, but their next door neighbors arent. It wasweird, there could be a house recompense in the middle of two houses the one in themiddle survived the bomb but the other two did not. A whole neighborhood couldbe wiped out except for a few houses. Why those houses did not get knocked down,no one knows.     The second chapter is called "The Fire." This chapter is about how theexplosion caused many fires. The fires were spread everywhere because of the higher(prenominal) winds. Many of the people were burned and buried in the smashed up bricksand ashes. The ones that survived the bomb and f ire, were seriously hurt. Thebook pointed out an incident where someones eye was melting and oozing down hischeck.     The third chapter was called "Details Are Being Investigated." In theradio, it had been said that Hiroshima suffered of an attack by a few B-29. Manypeople are universe treated for their burns and injuries. Many have died and a lotmore at this time are missing. Everyone is still in shock after 2 days that thebomb struck.     The forth chapter is called "Panic Grass And Feverfew.