An Essay on the after effects of the Atomic Bomb

The aftermath of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb blast is not just a reality but also a historical event with a continuous representation by past and present significant survivors and their families that actually experienced the eradication of their families by the Atomic bomb. These survivors have had to start their lives all over again with little or no help from their government and citizens for decades. They suffered emotional, physical, financial and social distress that was ironically brought on by those who where supposed to give a helping hand after the atomic bomb blast. They were practically made outcasts by the society they resided in; even to the extent of further ridiculing them by coining a term by which they referred to the survivors of the atomic blast.

Their stories have been well documented by many well-known and respected columnists, writers and poets. Even with the popularization of the Hiroshima event, right after the blast, by the western press, little is really known about the victims and their families by the rest of the world. It is a generally believed notion that the Japanese brought about

This exhibition brought about renewed interest in the survivors of the Atomic blast on Hiroshima. These pictures depicted by survivors who are not artists where believed to depict their definition of hell. Another excerpt from John Berger’s article in the journal New Society (1981) page 591 states “I am 78 years old. I was living at Midorimachi on the day of the a-bomb blast. Around 9 am that morning, when I looked out of my window, I saw several women coming along the street one after another towards the Hiroshima prefectural hospital. I realized for the first time, as it is sometimes said, that when people are very much frightened hair really does stand on end. The women’s hair was, in fact, standing straight up and the skin of their arms was peeled off. I supposed they were around 30 years old”.

One such incident is documented in John Berger’s article published in the journal New Society (1981) under the title “Hiroshima’, page 591. He states that a book given to him to review under the title:” Unforgettable Fire”, “consists of drawings and paintings made by people who were in Hiroshima on the day that the bomb was dropped, thirty-six years ago today. Often the pictures are accompanied by a verbal record of what the image represents. None of them is a professional artist. In 1974, an old man went to the television center in Hiroshima to show to whomever was interested a picture he had painted, entitled “At about 4 pm, 6th august 1945, near Yurozuyo bridge”. This prompted an idea of launching a television appeal to other survivors of that day to paint or draw their memories of it. Nearly a thousand pictures where sent in, and these where made into an exhibition’.

“In August, 1946, a year after the bombing of Hiroshima, Hatsuyo Nakamura was weak and destitute. Her husband, a tailor, had been taken into the Army and had been killed at Singapore on the day of the city’s capture, February 15, 1942. She lost her mother, a brother, and a sister to the atomic bomb. Her son and two daughters –ten, eight and five years old-were buried in rumble when the blast of the bomb flung her house down. In a frenzy, she dug them out alive. A month after the bombing, she came down with radiation sickness, she lost most of her hair and lay i

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