Paul Tibbets: The Little Boy And Fat Man

“The city was hidden by that awful cloud . . . boiling up, mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall," said Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the modified B-29 bomber that dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The bombings resulted in the death of thousands, including not only Japanese citizens, forces, and military but also American captive soldiers. In the midst of World War II the United States forced Japan to surrender by dropping bombs in the major cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They released the second atomic bomb shortly after, in Nagasaki, Japan.

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.

“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if monster steamroller has passed over it and squashed it out of existence” (Wilfred Burchett). This quote tells how bad of an effect the bomb had on the city and people. About 150,000 people were killed in August of 1945 in Hiroshima. Most people died of radiation, burns, and the explosion. A common injury was Keloids; raised scars from the burns of the bomb. Another destructive effect that happened to some people were cataracts. A cataract is when the lens of your eye becomes opaque, resulting in blurred vision. The effects on the town were devastating. The cemeteries were uprooted, the churches and houses were burned down, and even the T-bridge’s barrier was knocked away. People say they don't know why Japan doesn’t hate America for dropping the A-bomb. If I lived in Hiroshima, I would be terrified and outraged at America for dropping Little Boy. On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered because they couldn't take it anymore. About 227,000 survivors from The Little Boy bomb, and Fat Boy bomb; (bomb let off just days later in Nagasaki) are alive

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.

On Febuary 23, 1915 Enola Gay and Paul Warfield Tibbets Sr. welcomed their baby boy, Paul Tibbets. Little did they know that he would do great things.

More than thousands of Japanese perished from the tremendous impulse of the bomb, in addition to the people who perished from the radiation effects. The article U.S History stated that “Instantly, 70,000 Japanese citizens were vaporized. In the months and years that followed, and additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness” . President Truman vital decision concerning the usage of the atomic bombs, lead to massive destruction, awful sickness, and a high number of deaths in Japan. Also, the physical health and mental health of the few Japanese who survived the impact of the bomb were very devastating. It is recorded in History “The first western scientists, servicemen and journalists to arrive on the scene produced vivid and heartrending reports describing a charred landscape populated by hideously burnt people, coughing up and urinating blood and waiting to die” . The atomic bomb left an unforgettable scar in the Japanese

On this day seventy years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people, most of which being innocent men, women and children. Most of the deaths occurred on the first day of the bombing, with tens of thousands dying over the next few months from burns, radiation sickness, injuries, illness, and malnutrition.

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.

First, the bombs had a huge effect on the Japanese people, the countries that surrounded Japan such as Korea, and World War Two as a whole. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Little Boy and Fat Man, killed at least 129,000 people in total. It ended up causing other issues, such as child birth defects and a boost in illness. In the year following the bombs dropped, 1946, there were an astounding 1900 deaths from cancer. This is said to come from the bombs radiation fallout. One good result that came from all the tragedy of the war, is that Japan ended up surrendering to the Allies. This was around the same time that Germany surrendered, so the allies took the win.

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.

The bombings killed more than 200,000 Japanese civilians [https://qz.com/472146/its-clear-the-us-should-not-have- bombed-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ ]. There were still many more after the bomb was dropped. Many adults pass the radiation poisoning down to their kids. Most of these kids got leukemia and died.

When the Atomic Bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima, the people who experienced it were not expecting it to occur the way it did. We were given an insight of the lives of several characters on that fateful morning in August in 1945. Neighboring towns had all been bombarded by American B-29 raids, but so far Hiroshima had been spared and rumors spread that “something special” was in store for them. Every plane that flew overhead was a considered a threat and would set off the air raid warning, consequently that morning people even though the siren sounded earlier people were either going about their everyday routines or preparing for the worst. The people of Hiroshima were completely confused when the atomic bomb was dropped over their city because they were all expecting a warning of some kind, either from the U.S or the air-raid sirens but there was nothing heard before the bomb was dropped. Hersey describes it as a “noiseless flash,” which conjures the image of silence and a startlingly bright light as total buildings were decimated. With the dropping of the Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima, we ushered in a new age of

First is the radiation that stays there for 250,000 years. The dropping has made it to where no plants will grow from where the bomb hit and left radiation. Most of all of their water in Hiroshima is radiated and if you drink the water you will get sick. (Radiation exposure). The radiation has also killed most of the entire wild in Hiroshima which means they don’t have a lot of food. The radiation has also killed many men, woman, and children. Then all of their houses would start to deuterated.

The attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 will forever be immortalized in the words of President Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy”, yet the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were far more deadly and carried greater geo-political implications. Many persons in the United States carried the burden of assisting in designing, deploying and eventually dropping the first and only nuclear weapons used in an act of war, yet Paul Tibbets’s experience is unique. As a Lieutenant Coronel in the U.S. Army, Tibbets was tasked with the organizing, planning, staging and flying the mission to drop the bombs. His orders lead him and to face many personal sacrifices, and living with the responsibility for killing

On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor