Nagasaki Bombing

"It is part of my responsibility as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces to see to it that our country is able to defend itself against any possible aggressor. Accordingly, I have directed the Atomic Energy Commission to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb."- President Truman, 1945

 Two days after the Bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki was bombed on August 8, 1945. The U.S. purposely targeted Nagasaki becuase it was considered a "virgin city" becuase it had never been attacked, and it was a civilian city. The United states was unjustified in dropping the atomic bombs becuase they purposely targeted a civilain city, which is a crime against humanity. Not only did the U.S. attacked innocent people deliberately, they did not warn the citizens of japan properly that there would be bombings. They were only given 48 hrs to evacuate, and dropped 1000s of flyers out of a plane to warn the people. The bomb used to bomb Nagasaki was also more lethal than the first. Under command of Pilot Charles Sweeney, the "Fat Man" was even more deadly than the first. When first hit, the bomb vanquished miles wide, creating a ground zero area, still occupied by radiation today. Anyone who was in ground zero when the bomb was dropped was completely obliderated, or severely burned or harmed from radiation. Nagasaki's ground zero stretched for 100 meters into a 4000 meter blast zone. anyone in the blast zone was injured from radiation. If they didnt die immedietly from the blast, received later fatal complications from radiation. Becuase Nagasaki was a civilian city, the U.S. had no reason to bomb it in order to end war with Japan. When fighting a war,one should fight the enemy, not the innocent people who are in the middle of the situation. Approximelty 100,000 cicvilians died in the blast immediately, and later 200,000 died from radiation.