Objectivity in Hiroshima
At 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945, the President of the United States of America ordered the dropping of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima causing the death of an estimated 66,000 people. The journalist, John Hersey, wrote a 30,000 word essay in 1946 entitled, Hiroshima, which was later turned into a book. In 1985, Hersey added chapter five which tells the stories of the six survivors' lives after the bomb was dropped. While writing Hiroshima, John Hersey was supremely objective by not conveying any personal feelings about sympathy for the habashuka, pro-American belief…