Before reading this reflection i asked by brother for some background information on the bombing of first Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. I knew very little about the subject. While reading i got the sense the report was composed of journal entries which mated the background given on Laurence. It definitely set an appropriate tone to the writing. As i was reading his detailed descriptions of the events leading up to the actual bombing it painted a clear picture for my imagination. i just could not believe that everyone involved was so nonchalant about the events to come. i could not help but think of all the innocents whose lives are about to be obliterated. i weighing the pros and cons in my head. i knew that the bomb ended the war but hundreds of thousands of lives lost. it was so devastating. it destroyed everything in its path. though tragic my favorite part of the report was when he was describing the moment of the bombing and how he described the mushroom to the petals, all the colors and its monstrosity.

"as the first mushroom floated off into the blue it changes its shape into a flower like form, its giant petals curving downward, creamy white outside, rose-colored inside. it still retained that shape when we last gazed at it from a distance of about to hundred miles..."

something that also interested me was how they called the high altitudes "space how he said the bomb was like a "new species". the picture at the end really confirmed my constructed image of the disaster.