The bomb at ground level was 10,832 degrees fahrenheit [source 11]. There have been lots of people trying to decide on if Truman dropped the A-bombs to end the war or to scare away the Russians. President Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs to scare the russians and to end WW2.
The U.S. and allies had already taken down the Germans and their allies, but the war in the E.T.O was still going on. The island hopping campaign was really successful and had gotten the U.S. into bombing range of mainland Japan. Japan was already highly ravaged by the fire bombings on lots of major cities [source 6]. The total span of damage was over 32 square miles [source 6] and it killed thousands of people. They still dropped the atomic bomb though and it was truly devastating, it killed tons of civilians and took out lots of military equipment.
Even up to today no bomb of that power level has been used in warfare. At the time scientists were completely unaware of the danger that radiation posed. For example when they went to look at ground zero they didn't even wear protective gear. The blast at ground zero was so strong that people hit by it evaporated completely just leaving behind shadows of what they were doing. Regardless the firebombs were much worse than the atomic bomb because of how much they…show more content… If you look at this from a strategical point of view this is a great idea because it can end the war and intimidate Russia. If you look at it from a moral point of view this was a horrible massacre of tons of innocent civilians. The thing that makes this so bad is that first off the bombs were dropped on massive cities full of civilians. Next is that they probably could have ended the war with just one bomb but they decided to use two. This also seems like a good way to make the country look stronger because we were the only ones with atom bomb technology at the
