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Hiroshima Book broodISSUES Briefly describe the issues that are dealt with in the book.     This book was vary informative to me. This book mainly talked around theaffects of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroy by thefirst atom bomb ever dropped on a city. It speaks ab come forward how even if you didsurvive the blast you were so badly injure that you would die soon anyway. Ittalked about an incident where some hotshots nub was melting and was gunk down hisface. It speaks about how houses were lifted of there foundation. After all the look 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 energize almost every night because of falsewarnings of intruder planes coming in the area. It talked about how a lot ofpeople had to go on backup with only one leg 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 precisely a flash. The first chapter speaks about how people arewondering why they are alive, but their coterminous door neighbors arent. It wasweird, there could be a house right 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 over because of thehigh winds. more of the people were burned and buried in the wonky up bricksand ashes. The ones that survived the bomb and fire, were se riously hurt. Thebook pointed out an incident where someones eye was melting and oozing down hischeck.     The third chapter was called "Details Are be Investigated." In theradio, it had been said that Hiroshima suffered of an attack by a few B-29. Manypeople are being treated for their burns and injuries. Many lose died and a lotmore at this time are missing. Everyone is calm in shock after 2 days that thebomb struck.     The fore chapter is called "Panic Grass And Feverfew.