In 1945 the United States bombed Japan, the first bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6th and killed about 120,000 people. Then on August 9th the other bomb was dropped in Nagasaki and killed about 70,000 people. The bombs were super strong and took a lot of damage. The United States wanted the war to end super fast, that’s why they use atomic bombs instead of an invasion. Wikipedia says, “Before this strategies were shifted to accommodate the air war,” which means using planes more to drop bombs and attack from the sky. Tons of people died because the bomb was super powerful and they killed about 210,000 combined.
After the bombed was dropped and everything was over Japan surrendered and the cities that were bombed was pretty much all destroyed. So much people died right away and the people who survived got sick and died from all the radiation. It was sad and very scary. The world have never seen anything like this before. Imperial War Museums says, “The day after Japan surrendered was call victory over Japan day, or VJ Day“. People and other countries and the United States was all happy the war was over now. They surrendered on the Battleship Missouri.
Some people thought it was good because it ended the war faster and there was no more war. But others think it was wrong because it killed a lot of innocence people and they think they should have invaded. The invasion would have killed a lot of soldiers, but the bombed killed a lot of civilians and injured a bunch of people. I think it was right to bomb because it ended the war faster and because they killed a bunch of our soldiers at pearl harbor and destroyed most of all the fleet of battleships and planes and there was a war in the Aleutian islands.
Sources
“Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Aug. 2001, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki. Accessed 15 May 2025.
“The Atomic Bombs That Ended the Second World War.” Imperial War Museums, 6 Aug. 2020, https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-atomic-bombs-that-ended-the-second-world-war. Accessed 15 May 2025.
