The Atomic Bombs Affected Japan

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected Japan economically, socially, and environmentally mostly in a negative way. The bomb’s effect environmentally was damaging the ozone layer. Socially the bombs “increased the risk of disease and magnifying the harmful impact of any injury” (Kjølv Egeland) leading to more deaths. Japan’s economics was affected in the “land and soil of Japan that has been brutally hurt” (Kjølv Egeland).

Environmentally the bombs effected Japan at a large extent because the change in the amount of growth season and the drop in temperatures. This happens due to the damage of the bomb’s radiation to the ozone layer in the Earth’s stratosphere. The ozone layer protects humans from the Sun’s ultraviolet