Atomic Bomb=Good
... on the city. The smoke cloud was visible as much as 160 miles at sea and hung over the city for at least four hours. Eighty percent of all buildings in Hiroshima were destroyed and the rest were severely damaged. All means of communication were gone. Eighty percent of the firefighting personnel could not respond to alarms and most of the firefighters were killed or wounded. Seventy percent of the firefighting equipment was destroyed. Water mains broke and pipes melted in the heat. Of Hiroshima’s forty-five hospitals only three were standing. The city burned for three days. No one knows exactly how many people were killed in the initial blast, because thousands disappeared without a trace. The official estimates vary between seventy thousand and eighty thousand. Many more were injured. Thousands died after days, months, and years later from radiation effects. Through the Potsdam Conference that had ended a few days earlier had resulted in a general threat. At Potsdam, the allies had issued an ultimatum that called for unconditional surrender. The ultimatum was apparently ignored by the Japanese leaders. August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, when the Japanese government did not surrender, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. This atom bomb was named "Fat Man." It was more powerful than the one dropped in Hiroshima. "Fat Man" was dropped by a bomber named Bock’s Car. New York Times reporter, William L. Laurence rode in an observation plane that accompanied the bomber. After the bomb was dropped, he described the blast as "...a giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels and a giant pillar of purple fire ...shooting skyward with enormous speed." World War 2 had gone on for to long by that point and all the other Axis powers had fallen while Japan stood alone.Under the circumstances, President Truman made the best choice for our country as a whole. By bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he ended the war for good. If the atomic bombs were not dropped, who knows what could have happened. Japan could have attacked The United States again and the war could have continued for 4 more years. Japan was a major threat to The United States at Of course the casualties occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, and still are, an unspeakable tragedy, but if that is what it takes to end a war and stop a threatening country for go...