The Effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings were Extensive Towards the end of World War II, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan. These bombings were so devastating that it served as a catalyst to end World War II. However, the bombings did not just end World War II, their impacts were deadly (Atomic Heritage Foundation). The damages of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were extensive through the immediate damage caused from the bombings and the long-term damage done from the bombings. The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had the name “Little Boy”. However, it was anything but little. The bomb weighed about nine-thousand seven-hundred pounds and it was ten feet long and about two feet wide. The explosion force of Little Boy was not so little either, the sheer force of the explosion was comparable to fifteen thousand tons of TNT and main type of gas used in Little Boy was Uranium based. Little Boy was the first atomic bomb in all of history to be used in war (Atomic Heritage …show more content…
When Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima nearly all things within a one-mile radius of X was unconditionally demolished, totally flattened. Melted tiles on the roofs of people’s homes and buildings were seen about four thousand feet from the initial impact of the bomb, four hundred feet further out, buildings that had more than one story were flattened. Parched material and flammable material, instantaneously caught fire around six-thousand four-hundred feet from X. According to atomicarchive.com, “In Hiroshima over 60,000 of 90,000 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged by the atomic bomb; this figure represents over 67% of the city's structures.” (atomicarchive). These damages done to the buildings of Hiroshima are
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In August of 1945, both of the only two nuclear bombs ever used in warfare were dropped on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These two bombs shaped much of the world today.
So after Emperor Hirohito continued to ignore the threat on August 6th, 1945 Little Boy was aimed over Hiroshima Japan and dropped. This atomic bomb destroyed the little city and killed at least 66,000 individuals. Hirohito continued the fight and refused to surrender unconditionally. A few days later it was the decision to drop the plutonium bomb (Much stronger than Little Boy) named Fat Man over an untouched and unscathed area in Japan. The choice that was made was to bomb Nagasaki. On August 9th, 1945 the bomb was dropped and missed the target and hit the side of a mountain. The destruction was phenomenal and would have been even more devastating if the bomb had hit it 's intended target. Over 39,000 people had died in this
Atomic Bomb The use of the atomic bombs on Japan was necessary for the revenge of the Americans. These bombs took years to make due to a problematic equation. The impact of the bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people and the radiation is still killing people today. People today still wonder why the bombs were dropped. If these bombs weren’t dropped on the Japanese the history of the world would have been changed forever. The Atomic bomb took 6 years to develop (1939-1945) for scientists to work on a equation to make the U-235 into a bomb. The most complicated process in this was trying to produce enough uranium to sustain a chain reaction. The bombs used on the cities cost about $2 billion to develop, this also making the U.S. wanting to use them against Japan. “Hiroshima was a major military target and we have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history- and won.” (3) The bomb dropped on Hiroshima weighted 4.5 tons and the bomb used on Nagasaki weighted 10 kilotons. On July 16, 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was tested in the Jamez Mountains in Northern New Mexico, code named “Gadget.” The single weapon ultimately dropped on Hiroshima, nicknamed “Little Boy,” produced the amount of approximately twenty- thousand tons of TNT, which is roughly seven times greater than all of the bombs dropped by all the allies on all of Germany in 1942. The first Japanese City bomb was Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. An American B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay, flown by the pilot Paul W. Tibbets, dropped the “Little Boy” uranium atomic bomb. Three days later a second bomb named ”Fat Boy,” made of plutonium was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. After being released, it took approximately one minute for Little Boy to reach the point of explosion, which was about 2,000 feet. The impact of the bombs on the cities and people was massive. Black rain containing large amounts of nuclear fallout fell as much as 30km from the original blast site. A mushroom cloud rose to twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. The shock wave and its reverse effect reached speeds close to those of the speed of sound. The wind generated by the bombs destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1.
The bomb that landed in Hiroshima was called the “Little Boy” (World War 2 Atomic Bomb 2). The bomb ended up killing about 170,000 people. 70,000 people died the first day and 100,000 people died in the next few months due to the radioactivity of the bomb and burns from the bombing (Ford 1).... ... middle of paper ...
The Role of the Atomic Bomb on the Ending of the War The first Atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6 th August 1945 at the end of World War 2. The blast virtually levelled more than 10 square km of the city. killed 100,000 civilians in the attack. Three days later another Atom bomb was dropped in the city of Nagasaki.
Daniel Gauthier Period 3A February 25, 2017 “Hiroshima” Book Report On August 6, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb used against an enemy was dropped from an American plane (Enola Gay) on the 245,000 residents of Hiroshima, Japan. Most of the city was destroyed and thousands of its citizens died. Some of its inhabitants survived and suffered the debilitating and destructive effects of the blast such as horrific burns and radiation illness. “Hiroshima” by John Hersey is about what happened on the day the atomic bomb exploded.
Japan will never forgotten the day of August 6 and 9 in 1945; we became the only victim by the atomic bombs in the world. When the atomic was dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was World War II. The decision of dropping the atomic bombs was affected by different backgrounds such as the Manhattan Project, and the Pacific War. At Hiroshima City, the population of Hiroshima was 350,000 when the atomic bomb dropped. Also, the population of Nagasaki was around 250,000 ("Overview."). However, there was no accurate number of death because all of documents were burned by the atomic bombs. On the other hand, the atomic bombs had extremely strong power and huge numbers of Japanese who lived in Hiroshima
The devastation brought about by the atomic bomb has caused fear among all the people that have realized the potential destructive power of its invention. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 completely obliterated both cities (Lanouette 30). “Little Boy,” the bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 70,000 people with an additional 66,000 injured (30-39). “Fat Man,” the bomb dropped on Nagasaki also carried its “share of America’s duty” by killing 40,000 people and injuring another 25,000 (30-39). The bombs also killed an estimated 230,000 more people from the after effects of the two explosions (30). The two bombings had opened the world’s eyes to the destructive power that could be unleashed by man.
In August 1945, in the midst of a taxing and arduous war between the United States and Japan, President Truman was faced with making one of the most pivotal decisions to dictate the outcome of the war. Whether Truman would decide to drop the atomic Bomb on Japan or continue fighting against the brutal Japanese army, thousands of lives would be lost and myriad of families would be harmed. However, if a historian could examine primary sources to regarding the controversy of the atomic bomb, he or she would deduce that the dropping of the malignant weapon was justified and the most logical solution to halt America’s toilsome fighting. While the cataclysmic dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki liquidated thousands of innocent and ingenuous individuals, its doing established peace and resolution between Japan and the United States, safeguarded thousands of American veterans, and evinced the power and capability of the US army.
The Second World War involved Germany, Japan, and Italy (the Axis) against the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union (the Allies). Although the war initially began in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese attacked the American fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.The United States, with the support from the United Kingdom dropped the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August, 1945 and three days later on Nagasaki. With these two bombings killing at least 129,000 people made the United States, the first and the only nation to use atomic weapons during a war. The atomic bombings of Japan put the end of the second world war saving hundreds of thousands of American lives, but killing approximately 140,000 Japanese people. Figure 1.
On August 6, 1945, the bomb, “Little Boy,” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and on August 9 of that same year, a bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. They were the first of the two only nuclear weapons ever used in warfare. Many people died, buildings were destroyed, and a lot of radiation was exposed to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were both tragic incidents, they both shaped the future of atomic warfare forever. The United States decided to drop their very first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 8, 1945.
The US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be justified by recognizing that it was an act that stopped World War II. The japanese refused to surrender therefore, as an option to prevent future damages and save american lives, the attack was the best option. The atomic bomb changed the world as we know it for the better, by finishing a war that would have caused greater damage. When World War II began, the United States was a neutral country.
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Destruction has shaped history in extreme ways, and without it the world would be much different than it is in this modern day. Devastating and history changing destructions people remember well would be the bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Pearl Harbor, all of which took many military as well as civilian lives, changing people's lives forever, due to their effect on the world. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor due to it being an important area of the American Military, their hope was that taking out a big part of their military would prevent America from getting in the way. America fought back anyway and eventually turned into even bigger and more destructive bombs than Japan. A big problem with this is the bombing locations America chose: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both where civilians resided.
On August 6, 1945 the first of two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan by the United States in order to finish World War II. The first one landed over the heavily populated city of Hiroshima. The second bomb was dropped, not only three days later, on August 9, 1945 on another Japanese city called Nagasaki. Both atomic bombs made terrible impacts on the cities they were dropped on. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed beyond belief leaving a trail of dust where once families lived a normal life. The U.S. should not have dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan because it affected the climate and world’s mindset, targeted two sites that were not military bases, and killed a profuse amount of innocent citizens.