Hiroshima Bombing Research Paper
On 6th August 1945, 8.15am America dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan because Japan would not surrender. 130,000 people were killed by the initial blow, mostly women and children and the Atomic bomb caused many more deaths afterwards due to radiation. 3 days later, 9th August America dropped another bomb, which was much more powerful than and just as devastating as the first, on Nagasaki in Japan killing 70,000 people. Since 1940 scientists in the U.S.A had been working on a new bomb which could destroy whole cities, the secret code name for the project was 'The Manhattan project'. $2 billion dollars was spent on making the bomb making it the most expensive bomb ever. The Atomic bomb had more power than 20,000 tonnes of TNT
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America had spent a lot of money on the bomb and thus had to justify the cost, the war gave a chance for the Americans to drop the bomb and see if the bomb could do what it was actually made for, destroy whole cities. This may be of course a more coarse and cynical explanation but certainly it would give the US an opportunity for scientific and military experience. America dropped the Atomic bomb to show world domination and to scare the USSR who was their rivals for power, we see later on after the war finished America and Russia on each other-the cold …show more content…
Japan was willing to negotiate through the USSR but America wanted Japan to surrender unconditionally. America dropped the second bomb nicknamed Fat Man on Nagasaki because they claimed that the first bomb had not changed the minds of the Japanese. News of poor treatment of POWs (Prisoners of war) spread. Japan displayed atrocious actions towards the POWs such as torturing them and cutting them up. Propaganda in America was used to portray the Japanese in a negative light resulting in the public to consider them as sub-human. The American public were stunned and disbelieving of the Japanese's cruelty in which made America more determined to put an end to it and punish Japan. Grayford Payne an American POW, agreed with the use of the Atomic
America had spent a lot of money on the bomb and thus had to justify the cost, the war gave a chance for the Americans to drop the bomb and see if the bomb could do what it was actually made for, destroy whole cities. This may be of course a more coarse and cynical explanation but certainly it would give the US an opportunity for scientific and military experience. America dropped the Atomic bomb to show world domination and to scare the USSR who was their rivals for power, we see later on after the war finished America and Russia on each other-the cold …show more content…
Japan was willing to negotiate through the USSR but America wanted Japan to surrender unconditionally. America dropped the second bomb nicknamed Fat Man on Nagasaki because they claimed that the first bomb had not changed the minds of the Japanese. News of poor treatment of POWs (Prisoners of war) spread. Japan displayed atrocious actions towards the POWs such as torturing them and cutting them up. Propaganda in America was used to portray the Japanese in a negative light resulting in the public to consider them as sub-human. The American public were stunned and disbelieving of the Japanese's cruelty in which made America more determined to put an end to it and punish Japan. Grayford Payne an American POW, agreed with the use of the Atomic