Was The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs On Hiroshima And Nagasaki Justified?

... Alex McAllister Was The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs On Hiroshima And Nagasaki Justified? A single atomic bomb, the first weapon of its type ever used against a target, exploded over the city of Hiroshima at 8:15 on the morning of August 1945.the attack came 45 minutes after the all clear had been sounded from a previous alert. The explosion came as an almost complete surprise and the people had not taken shelter. The bomb exploded slightly northwest of the centre of the city. Because of this accuracy and the flat land and circular shape of the city, Hiroshima was uniformly and extensively devastated. Practically the entire densely or moderately built up portion of the city was leveled by blast and swept by fire. At Nagasaki three days later, the city was scarcely more prepared, though vague references to the Hiroshima disaster had appeared in the newspaper of 8 August. The city

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