Character Analysis
Shintaro Fukuhara
A ten-year-old boy with his little brother at the time of the Hiroshima explosion
Michihiko Hachiya
Doctor at Hiroshima who described some of the devastating aftermath of the bomb
Yohko Kuwabara
A thirteen-year-old girl who survived the Hiroshima bombing
William Laurence
A New York Times reporter invited by Groves to witness the Trinity test
Joseph Pesek
Guy who was killed in Pearl Harbor while waiting to play golf
George Phraner
Sailor on USS Arizona when it was bombed at Pearl Harbor
Yukio Mishima
Tokyo resident who described the sheer terror people lived in after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki