The atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (“Little Boy and “Fat Man”) killed a total of roughly 100-110 thousand people. There were more deaths than needed. The U.S. did not inform Japan of the bombing so that the women and children could escape. The U.S. should not have used atomic bombs against Japan to end World War II. What is an atomic bomb? Well, an atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from a rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity. In 1938, German scientists Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission. (iaea.org) Nuclear fission is when “the nucleus of an atom splits in two equal fragments, which
