Japanese culture treasures nature to the highest degree. The Japanese had always incorporated natural elements into how the culture is practiced. When the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, everything within miles had been demolished. Hiroshima was a very flat area with rivers all around. The explosion of the atomic bomb created pressure that ripped through buildings, rivers, and the land. The landscape had changed drastically. The result of the attack left radioactive particles in everything that had been exposed. These radioactive particles spread in various ways. Anyone or anything within radioactive reach were directly exposed to this nuclear poison. The environment also became intoxicated by radiation through a strange factor that has been named the "black rain." This rainfall appeared dark and tarry and stained all it touched black. The liquid contained debris from aircrafts and radioactive fallout. This dark rainfall reached far and caused molecular damage to the land it touched, bringing long-term devastation to the land. 

               Radiation had attacked lives and the environment on a small and molecular scale. Traces of radioactivity were found within plants and animals. Unlike physical damages, molecular damages take effect from the inside out. The radiation attacks molecular structures and changes them. The newly formed structure may cause new functions that may or may not be harmful to the organism. Just as there is no cure for cancer in humans, there is no sure way to remove radioactivity from plants, soil, or water. It has been found that the radiation does not just rest in its natural host and destroy it, the radiation uses the host's body to create unnatural heat. This heat emitting from the land contains plutonium, strontium, cesium, carbon-14, and radioactive iodine. This mixture within the emitting heat harms life around it as well as future life making the environment almost impossible to use. The radiation has still yet to be removed from the land and continues to cause damage to the environment alongside exposure from the atomic bomb. 

               Damages caused by the atomic bomb was more than just exposure. Contamination form the bomb's impact played a vital part in the destruction of the environment. The pollution in the soil prevents healthy life from growing. In order to rebuild Hiroshima, the land must be healthy for agricultural and traditional reasons. In addition to the poor soil, the water in the area has also been contaminated. Water is vital to all life, but when contaminated it is unuseable to all. Drinking this water will cause illness and carry radioactivity with it to the body. If the unuseable water were to be used on land it would only add to the damange the soil already endures.The land and water had been found to be mixed in with radiation and debris from the attack. Due to this observation the prediction that nothing will grow for seventy-five years by Japanese scientists was made.  

               The destruction of the land meant the homes of the civilians had been destroyed, but it also represents the damange to Japanese culture in the eyes of the survivors. Nature has always been part of Japanese culture, when the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima, a piece of Japanese culture had been demolished as well.