On the date August 6, 1945, the world's first nuclear weapon harnessed in battle was successfully used against the Japanese on a prospering city called Hiroshima. The bomb was so powerful, that it had over 20,000 pounds of TNT, which was enough to wipe out about 45,000 casualties instantly, and causing the death of more than 19,000 within four months of the date of the dropping. In addition, about 14,000 were found to be missing. The American decision was to drop the bomb, which was called the "Little Boy." "While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki". Also, "Little Boy" was created using uranium-235, a radioactive isotope of uranium. However, the question that people formulated months after the dropping was: 'was the bomb more beneficial to have been dropped or not?'
According to President Truman, about 250,000 American lives were saved because no more raids or inland attacks would have to take place. He, over the years, kept increasing the amount, until his final opinion was about 1,000,000 of America's finest youth that was saved.
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But, America was not fair about the way they asked Japan if they would surrender or not. Even though they said no, the military order to drop the bomb was issued a day before we asked Japan. This happened because our government thought that there was no way that Japan would have surrendered, though they did. Other possible answers were being thought of, as well, to end our conflict. One of these ideas includes our government talking to the Emperor of Japan and forcing them to surrender without telling them that America would harm him. In this way, the emperor would be more like the Queen of England, with no power, but still considered a queen. This idea failed, and, obviously, the bomb was dropped causing complete devastation and chaos within a two mile radius of