Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb

By Hannah Cobb and Autumn Crowe

The first two atomic bombs ever used in warfare were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan in 1945. On August 6^th, 1945, the United States air forced dropped an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare and second ever to be made.

At 11:02 am August 8^th, 1945, 2 days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man”, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. It missed the target by over a mile, but still had the same effect. Over 75,000 out of 240,000 people were killed that day from the explosion.

The atomic bomb was dropped because the Americans wanted to end the war quicker and to bring the troops home. There were two bombs dropped; Little Boy and Fat Man. Little Boy, the smaller of the two, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6^th, 1944. Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki three days later.

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