The Invasion Of Hiroshima

On 06 August 1945 an American Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A massive blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT destroyed four square miles of the city and immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. And three days later another bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki; killing nearly 40,000 more people. In the following weeks and months tens of thousands of people died from wounds and radiation poisoning.

The United Stated did this because President Harry S. Truman wanted the war to come to an end as fast and painless for the US as possible. A full scale beach invasion against the Japanese force would have had an estimated