Essay on Hiroshima Day

On 6 August 1945, U.S dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The death toll reached around 135,000. The second bomb hit Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 (three days later). This time, the bomb killed as many as 74,000 people. (Mason, 2014, Para 1) The bombing was necessary because Japan would not have surrendered otherwise and this would have prolonged the war potentially creating an even worse fate for Japanese people, with an estimation of about five to ten million Japanese fatalities—a…

On August 6, 1945, in response to World War II and Japan’s vicious attacks on the U.S., the United States launched the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. 80,000 people died, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, in which killed 70,000 people instantaneously and many more in the following weeks. These atomic bombs resulted in pure destruction and chaos for Japan and its people. Although the atomic bombs…

two. The atomic bomb was made and tested in the United States, it proved to be successful and was dropped on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, which were two cities in Japan. The atomic bomb was a new weapon that was bigger and caused more destruction than any bomb previously invented. It caused widespread destruction where the first bomb hit Hiroshima, and followed with the second bomb three days later in Nagasaki causing the Japanese to surrender, ending the Second World War. The dropping of the atomic…

Why do we think that our world will be like wall-e’s world? I’m going to give the necessary information to make you reader a conscious man and a helper of the planet. All of this tragedy began in 1760 when Europe start the transition of new manufacturing processes, This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system.…

of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we have won almost every battle with them. We have continuously fire…

officially entered the war after Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Invading North African with British force, the US began its involvement in the European battlefield. The major military offensive of American troops in Europe was known as D-Day, “nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed in Normandy in northwestern France,” forced German armies to retreat. (2) On the eastern front, The Soviet Union has paid a…

wounded and dead. To this day, we still cannot grasp an exact number of the people lost within the fires. According to an article tilted, “FIREBOMBS OVER TOKYO,” written by Jonathan Rauch, Rauch offers the following analysis for the number of death casualties within the three bombings in the following: “The dead from that one night's bombing numbered 80,000 to 100,000 -- more than later died in Nagasaki (70,000 to 80,000), and more than half the number who and in Hiroshima (120,000 to 150,000).”…

He used real life experiences from six different people who survived the Hiroshima bombing. Hersey did not want to tell his audience the surface story and facts about the nuclear bomb. He wanted to leave an indentation in the readers mind about the effects and coping capabilities these people possessed. Hersey narrated the survivors’…

More than 70 years ago on August 6th and 9th the United states deployed very controversial military weaponry on Japan. Two Atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Boy, were dropped on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the first use of atomic bombs in human history and is still currently debated whether it was necessary or justified. Many think it was justified because it ended the war with much less casualties, ended the war quickly, and the fact that japanese had the motto of no…

On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. About 140,000 people died and the great majority of the city was demolished, those who survived were exposed to the radiation poisoning and cause death. When the bomb blows up, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura is watching her children sleep, they all get covered in the debris of their house. Miss Toshiko Sasaki is an clerk, she is leaning over to speak to a co-worker when she is forced from her desk to under heavy bookcases, she…