Casualties of War Essay by Top Papers

"The effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japan were myriad, affecting all in its path in diverse ways. The most obvious of those affected by the bombings in were the innocent victims, townspeople who were simply going about the business of living when the bomb was dropped on their world, changing it forever. Yet, the bombs had many casualties-seen and unseen-in both Asia and the United States. In times of war, it seems that the only way governments are able to make a point is through its citizens, those to whom the worst collateral damage occurs. The American B-29 bomber-the Enola Gay-was deployed August 6, 1945, from the island of Tinian. The Enola Gay headed for Hiroshima, Japan carrying a uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy and exploded at 8:16 a.m. Estimates place Little Boy's instantaneous fatalities at between 80,000 to 140,000 people with 100,000 more seriously injured (The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)."