At nine fifteen on august sixth in 1945, an atom bomb of fifteen kilotons was dropped on Hiroshima. It was detonated one thousand, eight hundred feet over the ground. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay aircraft bomber. The same thing happened on August ninth over Nagasaki. The fatalities of Hiroshima were seventy thousand and Nagasaki forty thousand. The affects of the atomic bomb, or death-causing factors are the blast wave, thermal and …showed first 75 words of 1235 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1235 total…were touched by this tragedy. Radiation has long and short-term affects such as cancer, blood disorders, permanent scars, and loss of hair. Radiation is so harsh because people do not always know the bomb had affected them until a few days later. The only good thing that came out of the atomic bomb dropping was that Japan surrendered. It is obvious that the consequences of nuclear warfare far outweigh any of its benefits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**