Journal 7 Steven Harman

Part One: Dr. Sasaki Has by far been the most interesting character to me so far in this book. This is because in an event like this even who is hurt is going to look at the doctors as their saving grace. Its the doctors job to save these people but how can one man save so many. The burden that must be on him was probably unbearable. He had only limited number of nurses and he was one of the only doctors left in the hospital. But under all of this pressure and insanity he still manages to help as many as he can, he said that he went non-stop for days because he knew it was his responsibly. "Dr. Sasaki worked for three straight days with only one hour's sleep". I couldn't even imagine how tired you would be but this is why he is the most interesting character so far.

Part Two: One of the questions I find myself asking about Hiroshima is what did the government after the bomb was dropped? After the bombed was dropped efforts to help survivors kicked in. Survivors were forced to stay in make shift shelters out of schools hospitals and anything else they could use. Years after the bomb funs started getting made to help survivors get better medical care. After we learned more about A-bomb fallout Japan started demanding for the government to pay for medical expenses which they did. And then they set up the national A-bomb victims medical care law in 1957    to raise even more money. Through out the years Japan started to see more and more of the effects of this bomb because of the radiation that it caused. This started the demand for the importance of the victims to be just as important of the military because they saw that the people had been just as much of the war as they were. Because so many people were against nuclear warfare and what it did to Hiroshima they started a antinuclear signature campaign that by 1954 reached almost 18 million signatures. This also caused a push for there to be a conference of world leaders to end the use of atomic and hydrogen bombs. This happened in 1955 and opened in Hiroshima and had 30,000 participants with 54 people from 12 different countries. These are a number of things that Japans government did to help stop anything like that from happing again and in some way they have been successful. I got this information from http://atomicbombmuseum.org/5_beginnings.shtml and you can go here for additional information.