Hiroshima Bombing Cause And Effect Essay

On August 6, 1945 at 8:15am, an American B-29 bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was unlike anything seen before. The city was flattened immediately. 8,000 people were killed as a result of the bomb and another 35,000 were injured. Japan still didn’t surrender. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped by the Americans on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Afterwards, on August 15, 1945, Japan finally surrendered. World War Two was over.
When the bomb hit in Hiroshima, the city was struck by a flash of light then a cloud shaped like a mushroom. The blast smashed building within a 2.5 km radius of where it was hit. There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before but only 28,000 remained afterwards. Before the bomb hit there were 200 doctors in the city and after the bomb only 20 remained who were able to help people that were sick and dying. Of the 1,780 nurses only 150 remained able to tend to the sick and dying after the bomb hit. Thousands of people were killed and injured but that’s not where the suffering ended because it wasn’t just a normal bomb. The nuclear radiation released caused …show more content…
This was the most deadly long term side effect. This spike occurred about two years after the bomb hit and was at its peak around the year 1950. It was estimated that those who were involved in the blast had a forty six percent chance of getting leukemia. There were other types of cancer that did spike but that wasn’t until about 1955. Some of the other cancers that increased were thyroid cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer. It was more likely for women to develop thyroid cancer, which was proven by doing an autopsy. Almost 3,800 people who had died from the bomb or related to it were found to have developed lung cancers. Women ages 22-30 had a higher chance of getting breast cancer if they were exposed to more than 100