The Importance of War Reporting

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This paper examines the book 'Hiroshima' by John Hersey. The paper discusses how the author strives to emphasize the importance of modern war reporting toward revealing the true effects of war. The paper further discusses how Hersey's text focuses on six survivors of the atomic blast at Hiroshima and how his writing captures the perspectives of these victims of the attack and illustrates the real human cost of total war.

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"...most of them were too weary or too badly hurt to care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power, which [...] no country except the United States, with its industrial know-how, its willingness to throw two billion gold dollars into an important wartime gamble, could possibly have developed." John Hersey, Hiroshima, p. 66. The origins of war are highly contested by scholars. One of the most convincing arguments is the ecological one. It states that increased consumption of natural resources (namely food resources) results in social growth. But more growth means that more people are suddenly competing for an ever-decreasing number of natural resources. This increased competition will invariably lead to conflict. As those conflicts escalate and begin to dominate social processes, war is the result."

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