I needed their accounts in order to compare the reality of yesterday, a busy prosperous town, with the reality of today. Describe the reality of yesterday.

Ans. Hiroshima means the broad island which was built on the delta of the river Ota flowing down from Mount Kamuri, and it was the seventh town in point of size in Japan. The seven arms of the Ota seven rivers enclosed in an almost perfect triangle the harbour of the town, the factories, an arsenal, oil refineries, and warehouses. Hiroshima had a population of 250,000 people, and in addition there was a garrison of 150,000 soldiers. The main official buildings of the town were built of reinforced concrete and dominated a sea of low roofed Japanese houses extending over six miles to the wooded hills which could be seen in the distance. In the city there was a hospital with two hundred beds, eight doctors and twenty nurses. All these were completely annihilated by dropping the atom bomb.