The Truth About the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year will mark the 71th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was on August 6, 1945 when President Harry Truman told the world that the U.S. had dropped an atomic weapon nicknamed “Little Boy” on Hiroshima. Then, only three days later, a second bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki.
“Little Boy” had the power of over 20,000 tons of TNT, and had destroyed most of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 130,000 people. Then, Nagasaki was destroyed with “Fat Man,” killing between 60,000 and 70,000 people. Japan surrendered six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, which ended World War II.
The destructive power of these weapons was well understood before they were used on Japan. President Truman stated: “It was the most terrible thing ever discovered.” It is widely accepted that the bombs saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
It is a mostly unknown fact that President Truman had received estimates from General MacArthur that up to 31,000 U.S. casualties, not hundreds of thousands, could be expected within the first thirty days, and still is being reported in the media.
“My history as an American was that I was happy to have the bomb because it saved millions of lives,” Bob Askey, 85 said. “It was necessary. It gave the Japanese an excuse to surrender.”
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