The author gives a multiple page description of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 by who was a child at the time. They were told that the burned people might die if they were given water so she lied to her father and told him that the water supply was cut off.

Nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two of the most striking and shocking moments in twentieth-century history. In addition to marking the end of World War II, the terrible events on Japanese soil impacted Japanese society, relations between countries, and the way the world's population came to view international conflicts. In the items below you understand the reasons of such impact on world geopolitics.