Compare And Contrast Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Part of the city was virtually leveled by the time the dust had settled. Thousands more people died months and years after from injuries and radiation poisoning. The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan just 3 days later on August 9th, 1945. The original target for the second bomb, codenamed "fat man", was the city kokura but the target was obscured by clouds over it. This time, over 3.5 square miles of the city was destroyed and over 60,000 people were killed instantly. Also like last time, thousands more people died years after from injuries and radiation poisoning. These two bombs brought about the end of WW2, but they also brought the beginning of the nuclear arms race.

“Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were the first atomic bombs created, and delivered revolutionary damage. Little Boy was the first bomb to detonate over Japan. Approximately 90% of people within half a mile from the location of the explosion died almost instantly. Only about 10% of buildings in Hiroshima remained standing or undamaged. The massive explosion happened so fast that clothing patterns burned into the skin of victims far enough away to avoid instant death. Along with this, the blinding flash of light

The casualties due to the atomic bomb launched by the United States in 1945 were recorded at a horrifying high body count in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima was known as “Little Boy” and the one that struck Nagasaki was known as “Fat Man.” Several dozens of thousands of people died from these two carcinogenic, lethal bombs.

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

After six months of the United States attacking Japanese cities using bombs with the United Kingdom, and China, and the Japanese go as far as to use suicide bombers to change the events of the war, the United States called for japan to surrender. But the Japanese government was too honorable to surrender in time of war and ignored the Potsdam Declaration. Created by brilliant scientists, the bomb which was Original’s purpose was to be used against Nazi Germany was to be used to end the war. The bomb which could wipe a city off the surface of the map and cause long time damage was first atomic test was in New Mexico which Exploded with the force of 67 million sticks of dynamite. The flash from the explosion could be seen from over 10 miles away

On August 5th, 1945, while a conventional bombing of Japan was going on the Little Boy atomic bomb was load onto Colonel Paul Tibbet’s B-29. The conventional bombing of Japan started as early as 1942 the mission didn’t start until 1944 it was estimated that over 300,000 people were killed in the firebombing runs in Japan. In 1945, the United States launched a single firebombing run against Tokyo where an estimated 80,000 people were killed and despite the heavy losses Japan still refused to surrender it was then when Truman found out that the conventional bombing was not effective. Truman however had a few

We offered peace as long as the Japanese surrendered unconditionally, but they would not take the offer. American bombers dropped pamphlets all over Japan warning them to surrender or they would be destroyed. The arrogant Japanese would not surrender because of the success they had earlier in the war. On August 6, 1945, the United States, tired of the war, dropped Little Boy (the first atomic bomb) from the Enola Gay on Hiroshima. Little Boy killed seventy thousand people instantaneously, one hundred and sixty thousand were killed, wounded, or missing, and sixty thousand later died of burns and radiation disease. Japan refused to surrender even after such a devastating event. On August 9, 1945, hoping to finally defeat the Japanese, The United States dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. This bomb, Fat Boy, killed or wounded eighty thousand people. The shell-shocked Japanese finally had enough and surrendered on August 10, 1945

On August 6, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombing devastated the entire country of Japan. A week after the second bombing, the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, announced Japan’s surrender in World War 2.

Pilot Paul Tibbets said, "We turned back to look at Hiroshima below were the eyewitness's of the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan." The U.S. Department of Energy has estimated that after five years there were perhaps 200,000 or more fatalities as a result of the bombing, while the city of Hiroshima has estimated that 237,000 people were killed directly or indirectly by the bomb's effects, including burns, radiation sickness, and cancer. After the Interim Committee decided to drop the bomb, the Target Committee determined the locations to be hit, and President Truman issued the Potsdam Proclamation as Japan's final warning, the world soon learned the meaning of "complete and utter destruction." The first two atomic bombs ever used were dropped on Japan in early August, 1945. Along with Tibbets, copilot Robert Lewis, bombardier Tom Ferebee, navigator Theodore Van Kirk, and tail gunner Robert Caron were among the others on board the Enola Gay. The bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen

Even though the Little Boy bomb kill tens of thousands of people and devastated the entire city of Hiroshima, it failed to get Japan to surrender. However the U.S was ready to drop their second, more efficient and complex, atom bomb on Kokura. The Fat Man nuclear bomb was an implosion-type weapon consisting of a sphere of U-235 to act as a tamper and had a subcritical plutonium-239 core that was was surrounded by high explosives. To activate the chain reaction to trigger the bomb, the explosives surrounding the fissile material are ignited, which then creates a shock wave which causes the core to rapidly compress. The core density then increases, the mass becomes critical, then supercritical. The initiator is shortly released producing many

The two bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II were the only atomic bombs ever to be used in warfare. The United States are the only country to have ever made an atomic bomb and use it. Each bomb alone weighed around ten thousand pounds. Little Boy was the code name for the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. Three days after the first bomb was dropped the U.S dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. Sixty six thousand people died in the first few seconds after Little Boy detonated. Sixty nine thousand suffered from different types of injuries. Around forty thousand people died instantly when Fat Man was dropped just three days later and thousands later died from other injuries. Altogether and estimated one hundred and thirty thousand people died from both bombs. Even one hour after the bombings what remained of Hiroshima was still burning. A majority of the city was completely flattened. Ninetythree percent of all the nurses and over ninety percent of the doctors were either killed or injured. Since most of them were stationed in the downtown area of the city which received most of the damage. All the hospitals were either completely destroyed or suffered great damages which prevented them from any aid to survivors in need of medical care. Not till ten years after the bombings did the long term effect in the survivors become apparent. The increased risk of cancer in survivors was first noted in 1956. Not long after this did tumors

According to Chris Trueman, after Little Boy proved its potency at the city of Hiroshima scientist were curious to see what kind of destruction a plutonium bomb could achieve. So three days after the devastating bombing at Hiroshima the bombing of Nagasaki took place. The cities of Nagasaki and Kokura were chosen in a process of elimination to be bombed by Fat Man; Kokura as the main destination, and Nagasaki as an alternate. Nagasaki wasn’t the most favorable choice though, it had been bombed five times in the past year alone. On August 9th when Fat Man was onboard “Boxcar”, the B-29 aircraft that carried it to its destination, and had taken off under the direction of Major Sweeney, the flight commander, and headed for Kokura. Sweeney noticed that one of the fuel pumps wasn’t working; this meant that 800 gallons of fuel was unattainable and was adding additional weight to the already hefty aircraft. Despite the issue the bomber went on and made it Kokura, but the city was covered by clouds. Nagasaki was the second choice

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.

On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima had been almost eradicated with an estimated 70-80,000 people killed. Three days later, a second, more powerful bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing over 100,000 people. Since Japan was economically and militarily devastated by the late summer of 1945, the use of the atomic bombs on an already overcome Japan was unnecessary and unwarranted in bringing about a conclusion to the war in the Pacific.

With the approval of American President Harry S. Truman, the fates of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sealed. This decision came with heavy hearts, as the United States attempted to end their involvement in World War II by using nuclear power against the nation of Japan. Truman’s primary goal in this form of attack was to discontinue the war as quickly as possible, while also sending a message to the enemy and establish the United States as the leader in atomic energy. Beginning as a secret operation labeled the Manhattan Project, atomic bombs became the new weapons of mass destruction. The evident frontrunner in nuclear technology, the United States was the first country to release atomic bombs on another nation for war