Hiroshima Bombing

On August 5th, 1945 Hiroshima was a thriving city. It was known as the “key transportation hub” to the rest of the world. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were such thriving cities where the people were all family oriented. On that day, 350,000 citizens of Hiroshima went to bed thinking tomorrow would be just like it was a normal day. They would get ready for work, did what they had to do for the next day. On August 6th in the year 1945, everything changed. The American army dropped a bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima.
When the bomb hit it was radioactive and never touched the ground. It imploded in the air and still caused mass destruction. This specific bomb killed approximately 140,000 people and civilians. The worst part was that some of the victims were children and newborns in the orphanage. Some people died instantly and others sadly had to withstand pain and suffering until they healed or died. It was a horrible way to end such wonderful and valuable lives.
3 days after the bomb demolished Hiroshima, another bomb rocked Nagasaki, Japan. The Nagasaki bomb, or “Fat Man” killed about 75,000 people in
It killed about 140,000 Japanese and some Americans who woke up that day thinking it would be a normal day. That was about ⅓ of the population of Hiroshima at the time. That is a huge number if you really think about it in a sense of how big your city is. The estimated number of people in a city is about 9,500 people. That would be about 15 cities wiped out. Let’s take 9/11 for example; 2997 people died that day. We think of that day as the “worst day in American history”. I don’t know about anyone else, but I wouldn’t wish that pain to my country to anyone on Earth, so why would we want to cause so much destruction to a thriving city such as Hiroshima, Japan. If we put it in perspective August 6th was their September 11th, and the fact that we caused that much heartbreak and loss to a city just makes me