Hiroshima writing

Here is a article that I wrote about the bombing in Hiroshima.

The disaster in hiroshima

August the 6th, 1945 bomb dropped on Hiroshima city of Japan. Known by the name “little boy”.

This bomb was dropped by an American B-29 superfortress known as Enola Gay. When the bomb was dropped it exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet.

The casualties from the bombing are in the tens of thousands.

Many of the deaths are from the giant heat wave that hit the city after the bomb dropped which caused peoples skin to fall off or for their clothes patterns to melt into their skin. Injuries of serious burns, cuts from glass and trapped under the debris of collapsed buildings also killed some. And from a week after the bomb dropped people started to die from a mysterious illness which we now know as radiation sickness.

The destruction of the bomb affected the people greatly but as you would suspect it also demolished the city no building left completely. Houses, schools, shops and workplaces all destroyed and now in big piles of nothing.

The bomb was 3m in length and 71cm in diameter and had the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. The purpose of this bombing was to make Japan surrender to United states to end the war. So Japan decided that after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to surrender. It was announced by imperial Japan on the 15th August and was formally signed on the 5th September.