Harry Truman said in regard to the atomic bomb, "it seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful..." The atomic bomb could very well be the most terrible thing ever invented. It is a weapon of destruction. When first tested with only thirteen pounds of the explosive, the bomb left a crater six feet deep and twelve hundred feet in diameter as well as causing a sixty foot steel tower to literally disappear. This test which occurred in New Mexico was visible from two hundred miles away and could be heard up to forty miles away.
At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.
The Us and Japan were at war, after Japan had attacked the US. Japan had refused to surrender to the US.
They wanted to get back at them for bombing Japan
so they could end the war in Japan
6 august 1945
August 6 1945
President Harry S Truman
The bomb dropped Hiroshima detonated in mid air above a bank in central Hiroshima.
Japan did not drop the atomic bomb on Pearl Harbor, they dropped regular bombs and declared war on the US because the US imposed an oil embargo on them. The US dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender.
"Little Boy"
august 6 1945.
If you mean the US, yes.
August 6, 1945
North from the center of the city.
6 august 1945
To force Japan to surrender and end the war.
August 6 1945
President Harry S Truman
These bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and not in China.
To end the war and collapse Japan's means to make war.
On August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy Atom bomb on Hiroshima which killed 100,000 in an instant.. On August 10, 1945 the Bocksar plane dropped the Fat Man Atom Bomb on Nagasaki killing 40,000 instantly.