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On August 1945, Nagasaki Japan, suffered the same fate as Hiroshima, Japan: a devastating nuclear explosion of tremendous power. . . The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Fat Man, and Little Boy, dropped on Nagaski, had the explosive capacity of 20,000 tons. Nagasaki, a few days later was not America's primary target but was a major shipbuilding city and port that had been bombed five times before. Bockscar, the B29 Superfortess airplane was carrying Fat Man to its target.Within days after the bombing the Japaneses surrendered. The bombing was the last major attack of World War II. J. Samuel Walker wrote:

"the controversy over the use of the bomb seems certain to continue. The fundamental issue that has divided scholars over a period of nearly four decades is whether the use of the bomb was necessary to achieve victory in the war in the Pacific on terms satisfactory to the United States."

During the war the Japanese has brought Korean **conscript**s to work in the factories in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. About 20,000 of these Korean draftees died in Hiroshima and about 2,000 of them died in Nagasaki. Those who oppose the bombings say that it was immoral, government terrorism, and a war crime. __The atomic bombing of Nagasaki was a devestating event that appalled the world with its immense damage and its death toll. All this devastation occured because the United States claimed it would save the lives of one-half million American soilders__

President Truman had a plan to invade Japan after the Germans surrendered in Europe. His military advisers warned Truman that the invasion would cost over 500,000 casualties. Truman learned of the almighty power of the atomic bomb after the death of president Roosevelt. After deciding to take the advise of his cabinet members ,the USS Indianapolis was ordered to carry Fat Man to the island. After leaving the bomb stored on the island,the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, sank, and lost 800 men. A B-29 Super fortress airplane carried the bomb to its target. On August of 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima which resulted in 135,000 deaths. Since the Japanese did not surrender, the US dropped another bomb on Nagasaki that same month which resulted in 64,000deaths. Many died slowly from radiation poisoning. After the Nagasaki bombing, the Japanese surrendered. The war in the Pacific was finally over with families in the cities ripped apart and children left orphaned, along with many people homeless and dying

The peaceful cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki wer overwhelmed in chaos. Buildings lay in ruins and scorched earth was everywhere. The reconstruction of the cities could not begin for months after the bombings because of the radiation danger. The bombings of both cities signified the end of World War II with radiation ripping apart cells of people's bodies and causing many illnesses like cancer. Tumors grew in people's bodies when they were exposed to the radiation so people were afraid to return to the cities fearing they would suffer radiation poisoning.

The US apologized for the bombings and to the Japanese Americans who were held in the interment camps, giving each survivor of the camps $20,000 dollars. Americans were divided as to whether the bombings were necessary. People who supported the bombings say things like, "this saved the lives of thousands of soldiers." Those people opposed to the bombings say, " the saving of soldiers lives at the expense of innocent lives is a hard thing. to understand. The Japanese probably treat this event now as the Americans treat 9/11: when some one attacks the country's soil, it is more than just physical destruction. A translated poem by A. B. Vajpayee:


 * THE PAIN OF HIROSHIMA**

Some nights, My sleep disappears. My eyes don't stay shut. I think about The scientists who invented nuclear weapons: After hearing about the massacre at Hiroshima-Nagasaki, How did they ever go to sleep?.... Did they, even for a moment, Feel that what took place by their hand Was not Right? If they did, then Time will not place them in the dock. But if they didn't, history will never Forgive them.

This poem reflects the Japanese view on the bombings. these are quotes from author John Hersey:

"one hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780

nurses, 1654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of t

hirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred."

"Many citizens of Hiroshima continued to feel a hatred for Americans which nothing can possibly erase. “I see,” Dr.

Sasaki once said, “that they are holding a trial for war criminals in Tokyo just now. I think they ought to try the men who

decided to use the bomb and they should hang them all ."

The hatred against America's decision was most extreme. Some people see this as the most immoral action a human being can preform. The cities are rebuilt now but people will never forget the history of destruction of these cities have.