Defining Hiroshima:

Dropping of the most destructive

explosive ever devised by man.
The quote above is from a leaflet that was dropped on several apanese cities!
warning the people within to evacuate. "o such warning fell on the people of Hiroshima:
that was the site of the first of the two uses of the atomic bomb. Historians have debated
the necessity! as have students in a classroom studying world history. #hether or not the
dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was necessary! on $ugust %! &'()! by the
word of *resident Harry Truman! the city of Hiroshima felt the wrath of science.
Hiroshima is synonymous with the mentality of Harry Truman+ he was a simple
man who saw the world in blac, and white. Truman was told by his advisors -.eslie
/roves among them0 that the dropping of the bomb would end #orld #ar 11 with as little
$merican casualties as possible. .ittle or no tal, of ethics too, place! as Truman
believed that the simple answer to the conflict was in the grasp of the 2nited 3tates.
Hiroshima was the result of this quic, fix for the war.
4or the eighty thousand plus who died instantly as the extreme blast from .ittle
5oy spread quic,ly overhead and through the streets! it was over before they ,new it.
This seems a merciful fate when coupled with the deaths and mutations that countless
victims suffered from radiation poisoning years after the bomb fell.
3o what is Hiroshima6 $ blunder of men! perhaps. $ ,iller blow to fell the
enemy instead of peace tal,s. The opening of a new era. #hatever one considers it! in
finality! one must also see the whole of the bombing! what it was and what it means
today.