1. WWII and the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, and it had been regarded as being a suitable place to test the effect of this first atomic bomb. ... Although this bomb had engendered tremendous damaged in a matter of seconds there was no immediate Japanese surrender and three days after Hiroshima America sent another atomic bomb on its way. ... The Bockscar then flew to the back up plane Nagasaki re...
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