During World War II, warfare was changed drastically and would never be the same again. The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The United States decided to use the atomic bomb to defeat Japan in order to save around 500,000 lives of American soldiers that were needed to end the war. On August 6,1945 the first atomic bomb used in war was dropped on Hiroshima and killed 80,000 civilians instantly. The code name of the uranium-based bomb was "Little Boy." “The total of those killed in Hiroshima were 192,020, combining those killed instantly and those killed from radiation and other aftermath.” “After only three days after bombing Hiroshima the United States dropped an implosion-model plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man," over Nagasaki. More than 70,000 citizens killed instantly in Nagasaki by the bomb.” The nuclear weapons affected all the people in …show more content…
After the bombing of Japan, Americans feared the idea of annihilation. The government created a plan on how to survive an