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Why America Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

It was during the Second World War that the USA dropped two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities of Japan . This caused a lot of destruction with its negative effects being felt up to date . Monuments have been erected on the places where the bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Hundreds of thousands of people died in these two cities following the dropping of weapons of mass destruction by the US following a directive from

her president - Harry S . Truman . This was after Japan failed to agree to surrender during the war as was agreed in Potsdam where issuance of declaration was done to push Japan to give in to the war (Kennedy , Bailey , 99 . Together with the then president of the China Republic and the United Kingdom Prime Minister , Truman came up with a document enumerating `terms of surrender ' to Japan upon which if it failed to adhere to would face the consequences

Japan on its part thought it was just a mere threat and therefore failed to surrender . This prompted the USA president to mobilize the bombing of the two cities . According to reports , the dropping of the first atomic bomb- `the little boy ' on Hiroshima was a `test ' of the capability of destruction . This though did not move Japan , a situation that led to the dropping of the second atomic bomb- `the fat man ' on Nagasaki killing and maiming an estimate of 35 ,000- 80...