Atomic Bomb

played an important role in the Allied victory. The impact of the bombs killed hundreds of

thousands of people and the residual effect of radiation is still killing people today. People still

wonder why the bombs were dropped. The history of the world would have been changed

forever had the bombs not been dropped on Japan.

The atomic bomb took six years to develop and cost about two billion dollars. The most

complicated process in its development was trying to produce enough uranium to sustain a chain

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rst bomb was dropped on the Japanese city, Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The

bomb dropped on Hiroshima weighted 4. The shock wave and

its reverse effect reached speeds close to those of the speed of sound. The Americans believed Japan would never surrender. The wind generated by the

bombs destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1. A mile from the explosion center, where the wind velocity was 190 miles

per hour and the pressure was 1,180 pounds per square feet, all brick buildings were completely

destroyed. Within the four square

miles destroyed by the bomb in Hiroshima, 48,000 buildings out of a total of 76,000 were

completely demolished. A mushroom cloud rose to

twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. Black rain containing large amounts of nuclear

fallout fell as much as 30 kilometers from the original blast site.

By 1946 the two bombs caused deaths of as many as 240,000 people and the death tolls by 1950

were at 340,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly

made the Japanese surrender and ended the involvement of Americans in World War II. On August 14, 1945,

the Japanese surrendered unconditionally and the war in Asia ended. The people who entered the area within a half-mile radius from the explosion center in

the first 100 hours after the explosions were also affected by the residual radiation on the ground.

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