Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing Effects

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.

that did not die immediately suffered severe illness related to the bomb (Hiroshima 1) .

How has the results of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing affect the lives of the survivors?

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.

Imagine you are standing in a city in Japan overlooking Hiroshima. Smoke in the distance and everyone frightened at the scene. Buildings collapse by the dozen and people rushing to their houses. You get inside and check the news Hiroshima was bombed. In 1945 the U.S. dropped 2 bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stop Japan. The bombing of Hiroshima made an important impact on our history and culture.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki altered the course of world events by starting the Cold War, ushering advancements in technology, and by influencing cultures worldwide. Occurring on August 6 and August 9 in 1945, the bombing of the cities set of a series of events that would forever change history. The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from the war as superpowers with seemingly limitless power. Their ideologies, however, contrasted greatly, and the once allied nations would turn against each other, setting the entire world into a period of uncertainty. The atomic bomb, alone, would influence countless decisions, technologies, and policies in the following years and strike fear and awe into many around the world.

Although historians may argue that the economically dropping the bomb on japan got us out of world war II, because it saved american lives.

The causes and effects of Harry Truman’s controversial decision still affect the people of Japan today. Einstein sent a letter to Truman suggesting the use of atomic bombs in WWII. The bombs caused about 135,000 deaths combined in both cities. Many buildings were flattened in Hiroshima but Nagasaki was semi-protected by the hilly landscape. Just remember, Harry Truman’s would scar the world

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

70 Years ago in the midst of Japan lies two cities called Hiroshima and Nagasaki where 129,000 to 246,000 lives were taken away within the space of two days. August 6th 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped over the two cities in Japan by the United States of America which ultimately changed the warfare history forever. In the city of Nagasaki 80,000 remains were discovered and in Hiroshima 20,000 soldiers were killed and up to 146,000 civilians were killed (Wikipedia, 2015). During the final year of the war the American Allies decided to prepare and anticipate a very expensive attack on the Japanese mainland’s (Wikipedia, 2015).

Both authors succeed in making their case. In the case for Maddox, he successfully shows how the ignorance and stubbornness of the Japanese’s Ketsu-Go operation meant that a war would ensue for much longer, if the bombs had not been dropped. He also states the other options Truman could have chosen, such as a blockade or an invasion, but would ultimately lead to the deaths of numerous American and Japanese troops; by the dropping of the atomic bombs, only a small fraction of the estimated death toll would have been impacted. Maddox also successfully points to the need for the second bomb on Nagasaki. He refutes historians who argue the second bombing as “needless barbarism” by stating how the Japanese government would minimize the effect of

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.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ruined after the bombing from the U.S. “As time noted in the week following the bombings, the men aboard the Enola Gay could only summon two words: “My God!”(http://time.com/after-the-bomb/)

Earlier this month on the 6th of August 1945, the United States dropped the first ever atomic bomb on Hiroshima to end the war and save over one million American lives. The bomb called the “Little Boy” a uranium gun-type bomb exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. About 280,000-290,000 civilians and 43,000 soldiers lived in Hiroshima. Around 90,000 and 166,000 people people are believed to have died from the bomb side effects in the four-month period following the explosion. The bombing of Hiroshima, codenamed operation centerboard, was approved by Curtis LeMay on August 4, 1945. The B-Za plane that carried the Little Boy from Tinian Island in the Western Pacific to Hiroshima was known as the Enola Bay, after pilot Paul Tibbet’s

On the 6th November 1945, a United States bomber flies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb waiting on its target. At 8.15am the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 140,000 lives with it. Most of the 140,000 died instantly, horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were not in direct contact with the bomb died painful deaths in the four months following. They died from radiation sickness and different types of cancers.