Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and military scientific brain power--brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an
isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became interested in this topic because of my interest in science and
history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class.
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