On August 6, 1945 the American military deployed a B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb. The bomb dealt catastrophic results, as it detonated in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion was devastating, as it managed to wipe out a large majority of the city’s population. The amount of people pronounced dead was estimated at around 80,000. The rest of the population would die later on due to radiation exposure. The American military felt it was necessary to drop a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. They felt this was necessary to minimize the number of lost American lives that could result from a potential invasion of Japan. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, surrendered in World War II on radio talking about the atomic bombs and how
