Atomic Bomb Pros And Cons

The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was the correlated decision of the president at the time, Harry Truman, and his chief advisors. While the pros and cons were weighed heavily, it was decided that the least blood shed would be wrought if we shed the most blood on the first strike. On August 6, 1945, the enola gay, a class B-29 heavy bomber, departed from Tinian, an island to the southeast of Japan, carrying a heavy payload which would effectively be the beginning of the end of Japan’s war against the United States. The payload at hand would be called “Little boy”, a Uranium comprised atomic bomb created for the simple purpose of mass destruction. The target of this weapon would be a bridge formed at a junction between two rivers in the downtown
This lead to the decision of bombing Nagasaki, the last choice in a decision between three cities, Kokura, Kyoto, and Niigata. When all the other cities were removed due to varying reasons, the actual target was Kokura for the plutonium based atomic bomb “Fat man”, but due to weather issues, and a malfunctioning fuel pump in the payload delivering B-29 super fortress “Bockscar”, Nagasaki’s fate became sealed in atomic devastation. The plane left also from the island of Tinian, the same which had sent off the enola gay for Hiroshima, at the time of 1:56 a.m., carrying its atomic payload which was originally destined for the previously stated city of Kokura. At the time of 10:58 a.m., the bomb “Fat man” was dropped over the city of Nagasaki, and exploded 1,800-1,900 feet above the city, killing between 60,000 – 80,000 people instantly, whether by immediate vaporization due to the immense heat, by the shockwave destroying homes and crushing factories, or being crushed by the subsequent debris following. After the immediate death toll of the bomb, a total death toll reached almost 105,000 due to radiation poisoning and