Economic Effect of Atomic Bomb

In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped over Japan on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and a detrimental impact on the environment.

With the new working bomb, during World War II American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb called the little boy weighing 9,000 pounds on Hiroshima, Japan instantly killing eighty-thousand people then killing over tens of thousands of people after due to radiation exposure. Three days later another bomb

The United States dropped their first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion was tragic, “90 percent of the city was wiped out and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens and thousand more would later die to radiation exposure” (Lemay and Paul). Innocent children and citizens would die.

The deployment of the atomic bomb is most notoriously remembered in the context of the destruction of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Via B-29 bomber planes, the United States dropped two atomic bombs, one named Little Boy over Hiroshima, and the second, named Fat Man, over Nagasaki. The bomb Little Boy exploded two thousand feet in the air over Hiroshima, obliterating five square miles of the city and instantly killing an estimated eighty thousand people. The bomb Fat Man did astounding damage as well, destroying 2.6 square miles of Nagasaki and killing an estimated forty thousand citizens. Due to the topography of Nagasaki, which is surrounded by mountains and located in a valley, the damage was more limited than in Hiroshima, but devastating nonetheless. The destruction of these two cities led to the unconditional surrender of Japan, ending World War

“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.

Atomic bombs are so powerful that it immediately causes a widespread killing of the people close to the explosion. The aftermath of the explosions are horrific to where there were bodies floating down the stream (Document F). “The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in out war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender” (Document B). This means that the Japanese thought these weapons were exceedingly brutal and would wipe out everything, so they weren’t in favor of the bombs. They were already defeated from the power of these bombs and they couldn’t do anything after the explosions, and this was just not necessary. After the attacks, Hiroshima was no longer a city but a burned-over prairie. To the east and west everything was flattened (Document D). Entire cities were wiped out and this caused shock and sadness to approach into

The first bomb in Hiroshima killed 140,000 people by the end of 1945. The explosion its self killed 80,000 people instantly. The other major toll the bomb took on the city was the fact that it had killed 60,000 people in the next five years due to sickness from radiation from the bomb. The second bomb Fat Man killed 70,000 people by the end of 1945. Fat man killed 39,000 people instantly but left 25,000 people injured from the blast. If people who had cancer from the radiation that adds close to another 100,000 people who died from the second bombs. In the next five years 140,000 people died from sickness due to the bomb. In total in the five years after the bombs exploded 210,000 people died from effects from the bomb.

On August 6th, 1945, the Japanese woke up to their hometowns and country filled with flames and radioactive material. This event changed warfare as we know it, and will forever have an effect on the Japanese and American culture. These two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, killed thousands of people and in total, took a huge toll on the world then and today.

The atomic bombing on Hiroshima was very different to the normal previous bombing raids, because the previous bombs were much, much smaller and just started fires of the wooden houses/ buildings and spread through the cities or towns. This was known as the strategic firebombing campaign. The fire bombing campaign was in many cities in Japan. Where the atomic bombing strategy left no chance of survival for the people of Hiroshima and completely destroyed whole cities in seconds.

On the 6th of August 1945 an American B-29 Bomber plane launched a dangerous atomic bomb called “Little Boy”, in the centre of the city of Hiroshima. The Bombs left 140,000 people dead and another ten thousand died later from the toxic radiation exposure.

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, a plane dropped an atomic bomb on the city of hiroshima. Instantly, 70,000 Japanese citizens were vaporized. Two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people died. On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.

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.

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.