How Did The Atomic Bomb Cause And Effect

Logan Thompson
3rd Hour
3/7/16

The Atomic Bomb When the atomic bomb was dropped the world was changed forever. The Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on the japanese city of Hiroshima and it killed lots people immediately and tens of thousands later from all the radiation.Then after three days there was a second atomic bomb dropped on the city of Nagasaki which killed less but still lots of people. Finally a few day later the Japanese surrendered. The moments that lead to the surrender are the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the testing of the atomic bomb, and then after that the bombing itself.

First of all the Japanese bombed pearl harbor on December 7, 1941.Planes from Japan came and attacked our base. The attack killed more than 2,300 Americans,destroyed lots of U.S aircrafts and it destroyed or beached 12ships(http://www.americaslibrary.gov/).”The attack sank or beached a total of twelve ships and damaged nine others.”.There was a dispatch that was sent from pearl harbor saying “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL”(http://www.americaslibrary.gov/).This attack is what caused the U.S to join World War 2. If this attack had not happened then the bomb would never had been made.

The events before the bomb are also important , the bombing of pearl harbor made the U.S join World War 2, the testing allowed them to do the bombing and then after that the bombing ended World War 2. This seminal event majorly affected the world. For example it started nuclear weapons in warfare, also if this event had not happened events like the Cuban missile crisis may had not happened. It also strongly affected both the Americans and the Japanese because it started the U.S using atomic bomb and the Japanese had to rebuild two cities. In the end the bombing of the two cities, so in the end the atomic bomb changed the world