Compare And Contrast Hiroshima And Nagasaki

The United States planned on dropping an Atomic Bomb on the cities of Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki. Due to complications, they only dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima and “Fat Man” was dropped on August 9, 1945 in Nagasaki. The United States had other alternatives rather than bombing and killing thousands of innocent civilians. This quote describes how the people died because of the bomb; “Hundreds of thousands of civilians with no democratic rights to oppose their militarist government, including women and children, were vaporized, turned into charred blobs of carbon, horrifically burned, buried in rubble, speared by flying debris, and saturated with radiation. Entire families, whole neighborhoods were simply wiped out” (Argument 7). Even the civilians that did survive had to

The primary bomb, dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, lost around 135,000 lives. The second bomb hit Nagasaki three days later and killed from 50,000 up to 74,000 deaths. In the article The View from Under the

Later on we see how there were more bombings being made, not only this one at Trinity State. The United States was trying to make Japan surrender but they denied it. Because of this the United States developed a new bomb named little boy which was detonated in Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6, 1945 it exploded with an altitude of 1,750 feet. Over 69% of Hiroshima’s buildings were destroyed and about 7% damaged. About 80,000 (or about 30%) of the people in Hiroshima were killed instantly and another 70,000 were injured.

On August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 Japan time, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay, from 31,000ft and detonated at 1,900ft above Hiroshima. Dropping the atomic bomb destroyed the city, ruined and negatively changed people’s lives, and killed thousands of people. Some say it was necessary to drop it because of the lives it saved. It didn’t save lives. It was unnecessary to drop the atomic bomb because of the amount of destruction and lives it ruined.

The dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 was the first and last time the weapon has been used to date; the atomic explosions exposed the true potential of nuclear warfare whilst also highlighting the global superiority that America possessed at the conclusion of World War II. On August 6th, 1945 “Little Boy”, a uranium atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in an effort by the United States (U.S.) and backed by the Soviet Union, the British and the Chinese to force a Japanese surrender. However, American intelligence suggested no evidence of Japanese surrender which acted as the catalyst for the second use of a plutonic implosion type bomb, “Fat Man” on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. The sheer force of the bombs reportedly killed 66,000 residents in Hiroshima and 39,000 residents in Nagasaki as well as injuring another 94,000 residents suffering symptoms of intense third degree burns.

On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy on Hiroshima, instantaneously vaporizing anything near the “hypocenter of the blast, and destroying all buildings up to five miles away from the hypocenter.” (Wellerstein) Three days later, the Bockscar dropped the Fat Man, a much more powerful bomb constructed out of plutonium instead of uranium, on Nagasaki. Due to the mountainous topography of Nagasaki, the blast only reached out to 2.6 miles from the hypocenter of the blast.

On the 6th August 1945 the Enola Gay, a USA warplane, dropped an atomic bomb (called the “Little Boy”) on a Japanese city called Hiroshima. This was the first time the atomic bomb was used in war. The bomb exploded at around 580 m above the ground with the equivalent power of 15 kilotons of TNT. Sixty six thousand people died instantly from the heat and impact of the bomb. Three days later, on the 9th August, the US decided to drop a second and bigger atomic bomb (called the “Fat Man”), on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The “Fat Man” had an equivalent power of 20 kilotons of TNT, causing more than fourthly thousand deaths. The dropping of the bombs, which was on the order of the US President Harry Truman, remains the only nuclear attack

The years leading up to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were a time of budding new ideas. The manifestation of ethnocentric ideals such of these were clearly demonstrated in the mass murder of the Japanese. Consequently the bombing also displayed the idea of inequality in the form of eradication of over 60,000 Japanese civilian and military casualties. Also due to the US using the bombs for revenge, they were significantly reckless, not very insightful and did not consider the ramifications of what launching the atomic bombs would do and who it would affect. Therefore, by doing so the US had demonstrated that they had a very destructive weapon and are very capable of using it, with no mercy. The bombings devastation failed to evoke surrender

At about eight A.M on August sixth, 1945 the Japanese city Hiroshima was destroyed by the deployment of the first nuclear weapon, nicknamed “Little Boy.” Soon after, at about eleven A.M the following day, a second bomb was dropped, called “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. Together, these bombings caused massive destruction. The death total was well near 220, 000. Only portions of these deaths were from the days of the bombings, with an equal number occurring later in the year from exposure to radiation. More have died since from leukemia.

The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed and saved many people in the first World War. The Bombs killed 146,000 people but ended the War and possibly saved 500,000 people from dying in the War. The Bombings made Japan surrender early which completed the war and put the war in the History books. Most of the people died because of The actual explosion or The Radiation and eventually received Radiation Cancer.

On July 16th, 1945 at about 5:45 a.m., the world was forever changed. Man had harnessed the awesome power of the atom and created the most destructive weapon ever, the atomic bomb. On that fateful day in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb. The destructive power of the explosive was a sight never seen before. The mushroom cloud and searing light reached 40,000 feet in the air, and the bomb generated the power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of conventional TNT. The bomb was so deadly, the detonation tower on which the bomb sat was vaporized, (History.com Staff). After said test, the United States military decided to drop two atomic bombs on Japan in hopes to end the war. The bombs, codenamed Little Boy and Fat

The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was ultimately necessary in order to secure peace and to mark the end of World War II. The actions taken by the Allies were necessary and crucial in order to secure peace, as the Japanese had adopted a no surrender policy, a part of the Bushido code and the ongoing conflict could have caused unpredictable events, leading to possible worse outcomes.

After reading our literature, I do not believe that the United States was justified in using nuclear weapons against the Japanese Civilians. The video, Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, showed the devastating affects that this caused on people not immediately killed by the blast. It was a terrible sight to see some of those innocent children suffering in the video. It was said that the energy alone from the bombs was the equivalent of being dropped into the sun. 100,000 people died with those blasts. I also personally feel that this was not an ethical decision due to the severity of damage and the loss of innocent lives.

Thus, another bomb was dropped three days later on Nagasaki. This bomb was named “Fat Man”. Unlike Hiroshima, the damage that the bomb distributed was kept to a smaller radius, but it had the power equally to that of of 20 kilotons of TNT as opposed to ‘Little

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-1945), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, this attack wiped out about 90% of the people (130,000) and flattened almost all buildings in the city. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 60,000-70,000 people, these deaths include those who died due to the force and excruciating heat of the explosions as well as deaths caused by acute radiation exposure. The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was the first ever use of an atomic weapon in warfare, the bomb was equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.