Atomic+Bombing

Abdul Ndiaye

//**Atomic Bombing**//
After the Okinawa, the next step was to take japan. But the experiences of Iwo Jima and Okinawa made allies dread the idea of invading the major islands of japan. The Japanese defenders willingness to right to the death led a mercian military leader to include that an invasion of japan would be to closely.They said that an invasion could cost up to 1 million killed or wounded allied soldiers. on July 26,1945 the allies issued a demand for japan to surrender, when the Japanese did not respond, plans to use the atomic bomb went forward.

On August 6, an american plane dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima. The devastation was extreme More than 70,000 people were killed in an instant and thousands of buildings were destroyed yet even this honor was not enough to bring a quick Japanese surrender. On August 9, the Americans dropped a second bomb, this time on over the city of Nagasaki and another 75,000 people died. tens of thousands of residents of both cities would later die from the radiation poisons an effect of their exposure to the bomb radio active materials. as a result, a Mercia leaders considered another option for the atomic bomb. This weapon used the energy released by the splitting of atoms and was far more powerful than ordinary bombs .Harry s. Truman who had became president when president Franklin Roosevelt died on may 1945,he was forced to make a difficult. should use the atomic bomb?Many of tremens advertiser believed that using the atomic bomb would help bring the war to a quick end and save other s believed that such a powerful weapon should make him decide to drop it on japan and the cause of that weapon will cause them to surrender.

On August 15, 1945 emperor Hirohito announced his country surrender in a radio broadcast the news spread quickly, and victory in japan or V-J Day celebrations broke out across the united states and other allied nations.