Hiroshima And Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan's industrial capital. The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. When the Japanese ...

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The nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosives (such as TNT) and caused high pressure waves, flying debris, extreme heat, and radioactive fallout." ...

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