The purpose of this research paper is to answer the question could have the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki been avoided? On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the first Atomic Bomb had been codenamed "Little Boy" because it had an explosive force of some 12,500 tons of TNT. "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber aircraft. The first bomb instantly killed an estimated 80,000 people. The second atomic bomb the United States dropped was on Nagasaki on Thursday, August 9, 1945, at 11:02 a.m., an estimated 70,000 people were killed instantly by the impact of the second bomb codenamed "Fat Man". I believe that the atomic bombings that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was needed to end the Pacific war, but at what cost? Many lost lives and loved ones because these two countries could not find a peaceful solution. .
There are many different factors that played a part leading up to the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The biggest factor that I believe was World War ll. World War ll was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The war involved a vast majority of the world's most powerful nations at the time. There were two main sides fighting against each other in World War ll. The Allies which consisted of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States against the Axis powers which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Britain and France declared war on Germany September 3, 1939 as a result of the German invasion of Poland September 1, 1939. Italy entered the war on June 10, 1940, shortly before the collapse of France. On June 22, 1941 Germany ambushed the Soviet Union. And on December 7, 1941 at 7:48 a.m., the Japanese Navy attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor located in Oahu, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was a defining moment in United States history because it was the first terrorist attack the United States has ever faced on American soil.
Hiroshima was the first of 2 cities targeted for atomic attacks. ... Nagasaki was the second to be bombed. ... Little Boy was the first atomic bomb dropped at 1,900 feet above the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. ... One month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. ... The two atomic bombings were devastating. ...
On August 6th, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped a massive, powerful and most deadly weapon the world had ever acknowledged, known as the Atomic bomb, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs dropped were given the names of "little boy" for Hiroshima and "fatman" for Nagasaki. ... The bombing of Nagasaki would be a hit to their port systems and cause just as much damage as Hiroshima. These men also had discussed which bomb would cause more devastation to Japan, the Hiroshima bomb made of Uranium or the Nagasaki bomb, made of Plutonium. Hiroshima was a planned...
On the day August 6, 1945, the world began an atomic age when the U.S.A navels dropped a nuclear bomb and the city of Hiroshima and then immediately dropped another on its near city of Nagasaki, on the 9 August, both bombs killing over 200,000 civilians and destroying a nation. ... H Arnold, "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse". ... The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberate and were intended not only to collapse their military power and economy/trades but further to desolate Japan into ruins. ... Th...
That was the Hiroshima bombing. ... That letter convinced him to make the atomic bomb before Germany. ... The Hiroshima Bomb measured in length three meters, and in diameter zero point seven meters. ... If they hadn't, Hiroshima and Nagasaki would never have been destroyed. ... In a general view, the old generaton stayed quite patriotist, but the young generation is very revolted by the horrible catastrophe of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...
(Grant, R.G., "Hiroshima and Nagasaki", 1998, p. 42.) ... The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit hard by the atomic bombs. ... "Cornerstones of Freedom Hiroshima and Nagasaki", 1995 p.25) Also, the Japanese were afraid of the third atomic bomb being dropped and were not prepared to face the wrath of another battered city. ... Even though the bomb had killed over 70,000 people in Hiroshima, and 40,000 people in Nagasaki, it would probably be less than the estimated amount of 300,000 to 1,000,000 military personnel and civilians lives. ... Even though the horrible explosions over Hiroshim...
There were two different types of atomic bombs dropped; a uranium type bomb in Hiroshima and a plutonium type in Nagasaki. ... "The Little Boy- is a nickname for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. ... The damage on Hiroshima was greater than the damage on Nagasaki. ... The first bomb dropped was on Hiroshima. ... The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...
The decision that was made to bomb the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was very irresponsible and immoral of the United States government. ... The effects of the straight bombing of Japan, as well as the effects of the atomic bombs themselves on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, show how the decision to drop the bombs on the Japanese people had nothing to do with morals or respect for human life. ... The effect on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the atomic bombs are disturbing. ... In Nagasaki, the radiation from the blast was more intense than that of Hiroshima. ... Some could say that t...
President Truman's decision to drop the bombs, "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was because he wanted to end the war quickly with little loss of American life, because it was designed to scare the USSR and because Japan's leaders refused to surrender. ... August 9, 1945 was when another atomic bomb, "Fat Man", was dropped on Nagasaki because Japan failed to surrender after the first atomic bomb and it was estimated that 39,000 civilians were killed (Lewis 11). ... Almost 150,000 civilians were killed as a result of the attack of H...
Many of us Americans were taking part in our normal every day routines, meanwhile the United States military was dropping a Nuclear Hydrogen bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Writer John Hersey interviewed a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing named Hatsuyo Nakamura. ... Laurence, permitted to fly with the mission to drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, witnessed first hand, through his own eyes, the incredible impact its presence felt. ... John Berger, from the first paragraphs of his work to the very end, states strongly that he is against the dropping of the At...
