Compare And Contrast Hiroshima Bombing And Nagasaki

The Second World War involved Germany, Japan, and Italy (the Axis) against the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union (the Allies). Although the war initially began in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese attacked the American fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.The United States, with the support from the United Kingdom dropped the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August, 1945 and three days later on Nagasaki. With these two bombings killing at least 129,000 people made the United States, the first and the only nation to use atomic weapons during a war. The atomic bombings of Japan put the end of the second world war saving hundreds of thousands of American lives, but killing approximately 140,000 Japanese people.

Figure 1. The mushroom cloud that appeared over Nagasaki At 8:15 A.M. on August 6 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb named “Little

The atomic bomb did not only affect the city, but it completely destroyed the city. The bomb destroyed most of the buildings and burned lots people of people to death in both cities. However, the difference in the shape and topography of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in great differences in the damages occurred in two cities. Hiroshima, which is flat and almost circular in shape, was uniformly damaged by the explosion occurred at the center of the city. The Nagasaki has two basin districts: Nakashima river district and Urakami river district, separated by the hill. The bomb exploded above the center of the Urakami river district and the hill shielded the Nagasaki river district. So, the damages caused by the blast were only limited to the Urakami river district. Table 1. shows the structural damages occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which shows that the Hiroshima was approximately damaged three times greater than