During the last part of World War II, the United States had a very secret mission that no one knew about or could know about. They had been playing around with the use of bombing material to create this very powerful thing called an atomic bomb. At the time being, no one really quite knew how powerful the bomb truly would be, so on August 6, 1945 everyone around the world would find out. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, which was a military center for the Japanese. The American's used a B-29 bomber to drop the bomb, which was named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay. It took 43 seconds to bomb to the city, and an estimated 80,000 civilians died.
Three days later, August 9, America dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, which was a civilian city. Nagasaki was a target no one would of ever expected to be bombed, therefore it was a perfect target. With a bomb named "fat man", no wonder it would do some major damaged. The one bomb leveled half the city, in which an estimated 100,000 people died. This bomb was dropped to truly show how power the US was, in which many people and countries underestimated. They wanted to be done with war, and this was their last resort. It was something that was needed. War is war, and they had to do what they had to do.
Japan eventually unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945. This day was later known was V-J day in America.
