Nonfiction Blog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The book I'm reading is about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What I read recently was leading up to the bombing and what happened during and after the bombing. It talked about the beginning of WW2 and how the entire world was in total war.  The author talked about the battles and things that happened leading up to the bombing. By 1945 the Japanese were locked in a war with the US. The Japanese saw surrender as dishonorable and fought with their life for the glory of Japan. On March 10th, 1945, 300 American aircraft dropped 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs. Damaging almost every city. Despite this the Japanese never surrendered. The prepared a final battle and taught their citizens how to fight and gave them weapons. But America was working on the Manhattan Project which gave them nuclear weapons. FDR didn't use them but he suddenly died and his successor Harry Truman was ready to use it to end WW2. Then on 7:09 a.m. on Monday, August 6th, 1945 Hiroshima was bombed by the atomic bomb killing 100,000 people. Many were injured by burns and everything was destroyed. Even after that bombing on Hiroshima the Japanese still didn't surrender. It wasn't till they nuked Nagasaki that the Japanese would surrender ending WW2.
     “In 1939, German-born physicist Albert Einstein-who had moved to the U.S. because of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany-had written a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, warning that the Germans had successfully split an atom of element uranium, a breakthrough that could potentially lead to the development of incredibly powerful atomic bombs”. I found this passage interesting because I wonder why the Germans were trying to do that in the first place, were they trying to make a weapon that could completely destroy their enemies. I found this interesting because the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused important events after the war was over and into our lifetime. The “Cold War” started because of the atomic bomb. The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Iran Nuclear Deal and I see things like that happen and I wonder what would have our world look like without nuclear weapons.
     I have one thing that I found interesting and I will probably never forget this. When the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 100,000 people died because of the atomic bomb. Then the Japanese didn't surrender so the US bombed Nagasaki. Then the Japanese surrendered. The US citizens were celebrating. But they were celebrating the deaths for innocent people. Babies, mothers, grandmothers, fathers all perished in the bombings but the US won. So people overlook that fact. That the way we won WW2 was because of the death of 100,000 plus innocent people.

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