The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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It was August 6, 1945. I was seating on the floor eating my ramen noodles, and i’ve heard that there was conflict with are nation and overseas, but this war was brutal. I had just got done watching the news and the war efforts are pretty good. This war has lifted us out of the depression since there was new jobs available.
There was bombs needing to be built, and ships, planes and cars needed manufactured but in all of this madness, there was the atomic bomb. An atomic bomb released, could wipe out about 4 miles in the blast radius. This war is in dire need of assistance, that's why we have built thousands of nuclear bombs. (Julia Glum) We are in the heat over japan, since they bombed our so called Pearl Harbor. We have some serious beef with
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As we fly around until it's time to drop the next bomb. We prep for the drop as it's almost about any where around 3-4 tons of weight so its takes a couple people to push it off the B-52 Fortress plane that we were on. After we were done dropping these bombs on our enemies peoples; we returned to our homeland to find that a reporter days later found out that a man Tsutomu Yamaguchi, survived the blast of Hiroshima moved to Nagasaki, which was also destroyed but then died later on. (Julia Glum).
Our enemy, Japan took many hours until they realized our people bombed them, or should i say it took many hours to find out i bombed them. At least this our second time beating them badly, we won against them when we went to war with them overseas and got a decisive victory from the battle of midway on June 3-6, 1942. (Stewart Ross)
30 years from now i will tell this to my grand kids, down the road. When i think of Nuclear i think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Don't think i'm done with this story because i'm not i still have much to tell, so listen in. As we bombed Hiroshima and then moved on to Nagasaki we also used a bomb called Fat Man or Fatboy, which detonated 640 ft above the air (Julia

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