The Atomic Bomb

The atomic bomb

During the World War II the United States didn´t interfere much but they developed the project called “The Manhattan Project” this was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was after the Japanese attack to Pearl Harbor that the president Truman ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities that had been chosen as target, they had choose four but he didn´t which one yet.

On August 6, 1945, the United States used the atomic bomb called “little boy” against Hiroshima; the bomb was carried in an American war plain a B-29 bomber called “the Enola Gay” named given after the pilot´s mother, the Enola Gay took off from the base on Tinian an isle at 1,500 miles south of Japan to Hiroshima, it was a 20 people crew on the Enola Gay, Captain William S. Parsons was responsible for arming the bomb during the flight and that took him fifteen minutes.

The sky was cleared at Hiroshima and by 8:15 the Enola Gay had arrived there and they were ready to lose the bomb on the chosen target the Aioi Bridge, so the Enola Gay dropped the bomb over the city the bomb exploded and Hiroshima disappeared in the middle of smoke and fire, the city that was before had gone everything was destroyed and reduced to ashes only.

Approximately 70,000 innocent people died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation years later, and another attacked was leaded by the United States three days later but this time at the city of Nagasaki, Japan couldn´t handle the devastation of the cities and the damage caused by the war so finally they surrender and the World War II came to an end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAmPpZG-Bns http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima_2.htm

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