BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA

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On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the Bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima

CASUALTIES

• 70,000 - 80,000 people were killed in the blast and 70,000 were injured, totalling in at 150,000.
• people who managed to survive the initial blast could be seen running away from their homes and would collapse in the road and die.
• Radiation sickness, once infected had a 93% mortality rate
• Shape od the land affected casualty rate
• Geography of the land affected casualties as well. Hiroshima was a flat delta so the blast spread out

FORCED JAPAN'S SURRENDER

• Bombing of Nagasaki

IGNITED COLD WAR

• Changed Stalin's attitude
• Caused him to join and start nuclear arms race
• Changed Truman's attitude