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    successful bombing, the sound of victory. Although it may sound horrible, the bombing on Hiroshima was necessary for a variety of reasons. The bombing of Hiroshima was justified because it saved many lives that would have been lost in the frontal assault and the lives of the prisoners of war that Japan had taken. Also, the Japanese were given warning prior to the bombing of Hiroshima, being told that the bomb would not be dropped, if they surrendered. The final reason that the bombing of Hiroshima was justified

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    wondered how many people survived after the atomic bombing that the United States dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan? How all the people of Hiroshima received medical attention and had survived? According to research, there were over eighty thousand people that were affected after the bombing, meaning injured or got their homes taken away from the big explosion, and there were about 11,470 people that needed medical help. The Hiroshima bombing was a total massacre because there were people who

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    States denoted a nuclear weapon over the Japanese city, Hiroshima due to the major military headquarters the housed. The event took place during the final stage of World War II, it is uncertain to the amount of people harmed in this event, to this day, with the long-lasting effects of the bombing survivors are still taking ill. The United States dropped the atomic bomb after obtaining consent from the United Kingdom. Including the bombing that took place in Nagasaki, a couple of days later, they

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    the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in attempt to get Japan to surrender. The bomb went down in history as one of the biggest bombings. The bombings in both cities affected many Japanese citizens, mentally and physically. The bombings didn’t only affect citizens in Japan, both others who wondered if bombing the two cities was the right thing to do. Even to this day, there is debate on whether Japan would have surrendered without the bombings, or if the bombings made them surrender. In

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    6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 - a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man." On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000 were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese residents, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, and 400 prisoners of war.The bombing of Hiroshima, codenamed Operation Centerboard I, was approved by Curtis LeMay

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    On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. This event was considered to be a “dark and difficult chapter in U.S. history”. The bombing of Hiroshima has killed about 200,000 people and still haunts the lives of survivors. In addition, a survivor named Chisako Takeoka witnessed the bombing when she was 17 years old. She was knocked unconscious in a sweet potato field, but woke up to a devastating site. The article states, “She witnessed the horrors of a river filled

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    Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later a second atomic bomb nicknamed ‘Fat Man’ was detonated on the city of Nagasaki. Over 200,000 Japanese civilians perished as the bombs landed and in the months and years that followed, burns and radiation sickness took a significant toll on the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From an American point of view, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II was necessary to end the war. Publicly, it was stated that the bombing of Japan was to prevent

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    was dropped on Hiroshima and only a few days later another on Nagasaki. These bombs were called Little boy and Fat man, which left Japan with a significant amount of damage. The destruction caused by the bombings was immense, to this day many still argue if the bombings by the US was justified. A review of information throughout history based on the conflicts between Japan and the US makes it clear that America was justified in its use of the atomic bombs. Specifically, the bombings were the better

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    Was the Use of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? Evan Luo Mrs Kelsey CHC 2D Thur. May. 17, 2018 On August 6, 1945 at 8:16 A.M, an American B-26 bomber dropped the world's first uranium bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed instantly. Another 60,000 others died shortly after from radiation poisoning. Within 3 days, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. This time it was a plutonium bomb which took the lives of over 80,000 people by the

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    in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the island of Japan. These bombs were called the atomic and hydrogen bombs. More than 200,000 innocent people were killed when the bombs were dropped. Bodies were scorched, babies orphaned, house’s destroyed… total obliteration. The justification of the bombs being dropped, was to end World War 2. President Truman, believed that the bomb would bring an end to the war, and that the Japanese would know that the U.S meant buisness (D1). But. the bombing of Hiroshima was

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