The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki In an attempt to end World War II early, Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to save thousands of American lives at any cost. It has been categorized as the current deadliest bomb at that time, bringing terror to everyone and killing about 220,000 people, most of them innocent in both cities combined. During the war, the U.S. had lost a few battles against Japan, also losing thousands of American lives. And if the U.S. wouldn’t have dropped that bomb who knows maybe thousands of more American lives could have been lost and god knows when World War II would end. It was necessary for the U.S. to drop the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. …show more content…
nuclear bomb. The U.S. gathered and put together a team of the brightest physicists to research and make the biggest deadliest bomb ever created. The creator of the bomb was named, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team were the inventors of the atomic bomb, but the Manhattan Project were the actual creators of the first functioning bomb. The first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945. During this first of the atomic bomb scientist described as terrifying and outstanding. The explosion was as powerful as 15,000 -20,000 tons of TNT. The bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico, where the surrounding sand in the area the explosion of it was made, turned into glass because of the extreme heat. The bomb was composed of uranium and plutonium, where they give and release a large amount of energy causing a lot of damage. The atomic bomb can make a lot of damage. The bomb first sends off a wave, following the wave would be the rising of the The atomic bomb is powerful enough to knock down buildings killing lots of people in it. When the bomb explodes it is 10 time hotter than the sun's surface, many people die instantly, and others have severe fire wounds that end up killing