Atomic Bomb

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Hiroshima, at the time, a military center and the seventh largest city in Japan, and dropped a single weapon with a destructive capacity of biblical proportions. The crew on board and the team of scientists who developed the bomb were not sure whether the weapon would detonate. Nor were they sure what would happen if it did. In the split second in which a blinding flash of light told the crew of its success, approximately seventy thousand souls, who until that fateful moment, had been going about their normal everyday lives, perished, and the world changed. The intense heat of the explosion horribly burned those not killed or vaporized immediately by the blast. Eyewitness accounts describe traumatized people wandering with their skin trailing from their bodies 'like wandering ghosts'. All recorded pregnancies within a two- mile radius of the center of the blast resulted in miscarriage or stillbirth. Even today, survivors live with the fear that they may be struck down by a ...

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killed. On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered-unconditionally, thus ending a world conflagration in which fifty million people died."
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the most controversial actions taken by the United States in the 20th century. There lie many arguments for and against the dropping of the . Even before Hiroshima was A-bombed, hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed in the conventional bombings of over sixty of Japans largest cities. Was President Truman unaware that Hiroshima was primarily a city of civilians, and that they would be the A-bombs main victims? President Truman, even before hand knew the devastation that the would bring. On July 25, ...

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