Jordan Razon
Ms.Pierce
Period 2
07 March 2019
Differences between Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki most known cities in Japan for the
explosion of the two atomic bombs(Little Boy and Fat Man). At a basic level both the atomic
bombs were a lot different from each other. More than 200,000 people died in Japan after U.S
dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then another three days later in
Nagasaki during World War II in 1945. The bombings in two cities were so devastating, they
forced Japan to surrender. The Hiroshima atomic bomb Little Boy was made of highly enriched
Uranium 235 while the Nagasaki atomic bomb Fat Man was made of plutonium.
To begin with, The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Monday, August 6, 1945)
was called the Little Boy. It was made from highly enriched Uranium 235. The particular
Diffusion Enrichment Technique was used in the preparation of this particular bomb. Hiroshima
looked worse than Nagasaki. “The fire damage in Hiroshima was much more complete, The
center of the city was hit and everything but the reinforced concrete buildings had virtually
disappeared”(Pg 55) .Hiroshima was chosen as the primary target since it had remained largely
untouched by bombing raids, and the bomb's effects could be clearly measured. While President
Truman had hoped for a purely military target, some advisers believed that bombing an urban
area might break the fighting will of the Japanese people. “Hiroshima was a major port and a
military headquarters, and therefore a strategic target”(
Next, At two minutes after eleven o’clock on the morning of August 9th, the second atomic
bomb was dropped, on Nagasaki. “It was several days before the survivors of Hiroshima knew
they had company, because the Japanese radio and newspapers were being extremely cautious on
the subject of the strange weapon”(Pg.74) .At Nagasaki there were no buildings just underneath
the center of explosion. There was something left to see, and the main contours of some of the
buildings were still norm...
