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The Atomic Bomb

“was the dropping of the atomic bomb justified or not?”


In 1945 the atomic bomb was created to end World War II
The atomic bomb was the invention of Albert Einstein; it was produced to cause an extremely powerful explosion by splitting the atom, an atomic bomb can cause mass destruction. The Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is a controversial decision because there were many arguments for and against the atomic bomb. “What if it goes wrong?” “ Will it end the war?”

On the 6th of August 1945, an American b-29 called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city Hiroshima. The bomb was deadly it killed between 70,000 to 100,000 innocent people. But I believe that the Japanese were naïve as well, they did not react to the bombing and ...

Posted by: Jason Pinsky

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