In August 1945 the world changed. Two American atomic bombs were dropped on Japan with devastating effects. On the 6th of August 1945, the Enola Gay, a B- 29 Superfortress plane, dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. This single bomb killed 80,000 people immediately and about 60,000 more within six months. On August 9, a second atomic bomb that ultimately killed about 70,000 people was dropped on Nagasaki. The dropping of these nuclear bombs is perhaps one of the most …
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…good in the bombing of Hiroshima and that it could be argued that it was necessary there was certainly no excusing the events that took place on the 9th of August in Nagasaki. I finish this argument with a quote from the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. "With ninety percent of Japans shipping sunk or disabled her Air and Sea forces crippled, her industries wrecked, her peoples food supplies shrinking fast her collapse was certain."