Hiroshima
There were many factors that led up to the events of the U.S. dropping the bomb. the war dragging on and causing our generals to be very quick to pull the trigger. Many think that we could have won the war without dropping little boy( this is the name of the bomb) that killed close to two hundred thousand people. Because we dropped the bomb japan has been affected and the population of japan has been affected.
The war with japan had dragged on and with the new weapon that was developed called the atomic bomb. The president at the time was Harry Truman This was his toughest decision as president and he was pressed to make a decision on whether to drop the bomb to make japan surrender. Harry Truman gave the go ahead to drop the bomb on hiroshima. This bomb and the bomb dropped on nagasaki forced japan to surrender. The decision to drop the bombs was very controversial and Harry
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The bomb that was dropped had the explosiveness of 15,000 tons of TnT. (CNN) The bomb in Nagasaki killed over 80,000 people total. Throughout the next fifty years nine percent of the cancer related deaths were caused by radiation from the bombs. Although these were the death totals there were also more long term effects of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These bombs completely destroyed The city's infrastructure and ninety percent of the building were completely destroyed.(Zazen) These bombs also had an effect on future generations. There was about two percent of the children who were in their mother's wombs who were in or near the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Were born with mental retardation and the majority of the other children were slow and struggled in school(Zazen). These bombs also caused some global