so President Truman authorized the use of the bombs in order to force Japanese leadership into submission. On August 6 an atomic bomb with an explosive yield equivalent to 12.5 kilotons of the explosives TNT was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing some 70,000 of its inhabitants, with
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The fission type was named ‘little Boy” and the implosion type was “Fat man” Those two types of bombs were used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski the worst bombings in History. As the bomb hit the ground it blew up and exploded with a force of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds and lit the sky visible from two hundred miles away anyone who was able to see was instantly blind melting the retnas of
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of “Little Boy” stood out to me and represented conflict in the sense that it was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. At 28 inches long, this mighty piece of mass was able to create a nuclear chain reaction, or the bombing of Hiroshima. The aftermath of this bombing was devastating as the death toll exceeded 200,000 people due to solely the aftermath and lingering effects. Although this bomb was dropped intending to shorten the war, the long-term effects were far more devastating. Genetic
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In addition, atomic weapons have had effects on the environment. When Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, everything was decimated within a 4.4 mile radius of detonation. This means that all plant life and animal life was destroyed within that radius. In nearby areas, trees were uprooted, snapped off, scorched, and stripped of their leaves and many other plants died from radiation doses similar to ones that kill humans. Additionally, radioactive particles that disperse from ground zero contaminate
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the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in hopes of Japanese surrender. The U.S had finally succeeded in winning the war and in accomplishing Japanese surrender. Following the use of atomic bombs, many argue whether the use of atomic bombs was justified. Although the atomic bombings during World War II caused geographical devastation and suffering, the use of atomic bombs brought a quick and easy end to World War II and helped in future developments of nuclear weapons. The atomic bombings on Japan during
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single military event in history had longterm consequences so profound as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It was not simply that a city full of people died horribly that had happened, before, and even on a slightly larger scale, in several conventional "fire raids" during World War II. But those previous raids had required on the order of a thousand planes; Hiroshima was destroyed by a single plane dropping a single bomb. By simple extension, a thousand nuclear-armed planes
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be out and about getting the warmth for the sun. The characters from the story were doing their morning routines and helping out others. At around 7 o’clock the siren went off warning people that the american planes were passing by. The people of Hiroshima were so used to this that they didn’t do anything and just continued on with their morning like if it was a normal thing for them. A little after 8 o’clock the all clear sounded. The American planes had left. Suddenly there is a white flash. The
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cause utter destruction on any target the uranium 235 atomic bomb (Walker, p.14). Roughly four months later Truman issued the dropping of the first Uranium 235 atomic bomb on Hiroshima three days later the a second bomb on Nagasaki (Walker, p. 79). It was not until the world saw the immediate aftermath of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski did they see just how horrible of a weapon the United States had produced (Walker, p.98). The novel “Prompt and Utter destruction” by J. Samuel Walker reveals
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in Japan by Japanese girls and women. The women were unaware of what happened once the paper they were making left the factories. Forty years after they began working in the factories a few of the women found out information regarding one balloon bombing and their reactions surprised me. These women were compassionate, courageous, and forgiving. The Japanese women had found out that their forty years of effort had on only killed six people. They were shocked that that's all they had killed, but what
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My President In 1825 If I was President Harry Truman, Would I have made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima? Yes, I would have dropped Bomb on Japan Hiroshima, because of the thing they did on December 7, 1941. The main cause for all of this problem was Japan trying to be World Power. The one way Japan could become world power is by taking control other countries, so they can take their resource and became powerful. They were struggling on resources like Oil, Iron, and War materials
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