On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. ... If Japan was almost beaten by August 1945, many say that the reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was simply to test it on living humans. Aside from the ground test in the New Mexico desert, no one knew what destruction atomic weapons were capable of. ... One could wonder if the motive behind this second attack was similar to the first; the only difference being that the bomb to be "tested" this time was considerably more powerful. ... For example, the atomic bomb was tested in Trinity Si...

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Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. Although the Trinity test was a success, the allied powers already had defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan, however, announce they would fight until the bitter end despite the very slim chances they had of winning. ... Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, a...

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Hiroshima On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomb entitled Enola Gay soared over the industrialized city of Hiroshima, Japan and released the first atomic bomb; killing approximately eighty thousand citizens. ... Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and test the atomic weaponry on the Japanese cities. ...

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