The Vietnam War: The Effect Of The Bombing On Hiroshima

By March 1945, the scientists felt confident enough to tell the president the bomb was close to being ready and that it would be ready by the summer for testing. The factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee which was making the Uranium 235 for the atomic bomb, had made enough Uranium for a single atomic bomb. They made two separate sections of the bomb, then they were shipped separately, one by air and the other by water. Physician Rudolf Peierls assembled the bomb by hand, after it arrived at the Pacific Island of Tinian. Shortly after on April 12, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia where he was vacationing for some time. No one saw this coming, but he had been struggling with his health for several months but only the closest people to him were aware of such information. Vice President Harry S. Truman had to overtake office and was immediately informed about the atomic bomb and their plans. Even he hadn’t known about what was being developed. That’s how secretive they had been about the bomb. It took him some time to really understand everything but after James F. Byrnes went a little deeper and explained to him and told …show more content…
The effect of the bombing on Hiroshima was so great that it destroyed 5 miles of the city from the center of the detonation and almost 63% of the buildings in the city were completely destroyed. And nearly 50% of the population had died, either instantly or due to diseases and cancer caused by the radiation. Although the destruction was fatal and tragic, the Japanese military and political officials did not believe that the United States had another atomic bomb and they vowed to continue fighting. Certain parts of the Japanese government wanted peace, but after three days from the bombing, there was still no declaration of surrender and so America decided it was time to drop yet another