The atomic bomb controversy started on August 6, in Hiroshima and on the 9th on Nagasaki, both in the year of 1945.   This bomb was caused by the United States, order of U.S President Harry S Truman.   He made this decision because he didn’t want the war between United States and Japan to continue, also he said “if he doesn’t drop the bomb his only choice is to invade Japan, but if he does do that many U.S troops would die.   Another reason is Truman wanted to know that the U.S was more powerful than the Soviet Union.
President Harry Truman had many good reasons of dropping such a deadly bomb, (which was stated as the lesser of two evil), but some people thought he shouldn't have ended the war like we did, such as me.   It wasn’t justified.   They should’ve gone to the government with this situation instead of killing many people. If this couldn’t happen there were many ways to solve. These included a naval blockade, an extensive aerial bombardment or an invasion of the island of Japan.   Also Japan felt betrayed of the United States actions, some felt that they left Japan to go to the U.S to gain more peace, but they don’t think the U.S is a good place to stay because of their big actions.      
The atomic bomb was very deadly; it was exploded at 8:16 and eight seconds, 1,850 feet in the air and 200 yards away from their target. The bomb in Hiroshima was called little boy and, the bomb in Nagasaki was called Fat man, both had mushroom shaped clouds. The bomb killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and 80,000 in Nagasaki, as you can tell the Fat man was definitely was extremely worse.   Amongst these, 15 to 20% died from injuries or illness.   There was many ways people died from the bomb.   One way was obvious the explosion killed many peopled and turned them to ashes.   Second is that people who actually survived got illness from radiation piousness which spread in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since then more have died from leukemia.   Third is that the pollution... [continues]

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