Hiroshima On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomb entitled Enola Gay soared over the industrialized city of Hiroshima, Japan and released the first atomic bomb; killing approximately eighty thousand citizens. Sixty percent of Hiroshima was destroyed. A second atomic bomb entitled Fat ... in the Pacific. The cold war, nuclear restrictions, nuclear energy, were the result of this first nuclear innovation. Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and test the atomic weaponry on the Japanese cities. Amid the options accessible to him, the atomic bombings attested ...

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